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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com>
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Subject: Re: SCSI Booting Problem under v2.2.1, please help.
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On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Sean J. Schluntz wrote:
> Hello,  
> 
> Last night I installed v2.2.1 from ftp.freebsd.org and everything went really 
> smoothly.  The problem is that I have to tell FBSD where to go when it tries 
> to boot or it panics when trying to mount root.  Here is my setup:
> 
> Adaptec 2940UW
> 
> IBM 2gig SCSI-2 HD, ID 0 (Device 81h)
>   sd0s1  450m  FAT   (BANDIA_WORK)
>   sd0s2e 200m  UFS   /var
>   sd0s2f 1.4g  UFS   /usr
> 
> Quantum 1gig SCSI-2 (Wide?), ID 12 (Boot Device 80h)
>   sd1s1  450m  FAT   (BANDIA_BOOT) DOS v6.22 and NT v4
>   sd2s2b 469m  swap  swap
>   sd1s2a 150m  UFS   /
> 
> When it boots (Either when I use fdisk to make the partition active or using 
> the NTv4 boot manager) it finds the boot, starts and boots from:
> 0:sd(0,a)/kernel
> It works fine until it tries to mount root, then it panics.  If I use the boot 
> option to specify where to boot from and change it to:
> 0:sd(1,a)/kernel

> Evrything works fine, I have tried to make the kernel with sd0 and sd1 and I 
> still have this problem.  What can I do?

Rebuild your kernel, modifying the 'kernel' line to point to the proper
disk.  ALso, if a ide controller is in this computer, disable it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major