From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 18:45:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 599BE16A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 18:45:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web50910.mail.yahoo.com (web50910.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.39.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E501A43D39 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 18:45:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from b_oshea@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 63762 invoked by uid 60001); 11 May 2005 18:45:11 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=l9wuDDWAbc2lQ3xoeNyNdw2TJY+gNYMISIAU4ROFtFIakRITUmmpc00jf8fPIt/BkUb0rlMQVFh5mpDToL+QUspbMAoU2rYLbRlndbNkM6ccvgLzQs6fx6vDXfuEgHFGvl5Njd+asjSJBUUvO1p7asUxPi6qtUA8Y7iZ0Suowmo= ; Message-ID: <20050511184511.63760.qmail@web50910.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [156.153.254.42] by web50910.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 11 May 2005 11:45:11 PDT Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 11:45:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian O'Shea To: questions In-Reply-To: 6667 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Boot loader doesn't see [root filesystem on] ATA disk after successful install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 18:45:12 -0000 --- Joel wrote: > > From what little I've seen, it could be worth a try if you have the > time. Ok, I tried booting the loader on the SCSI disk, and then telling it to boot the kernel on the IDE disk. In this case it just beeped and returned me to the prompt to select a disk (F1 or F5) to boot from. The lsdev command on this boot loader gave the same results as the one booted from the IDE disk. > From what I've read and what I've experienced, putting hard disks > and CD-ROMs on the same channel is counterproductive. Boot problems > and data problems are said to be likely on many controller and drive > combinations. I know, and I wouldn't have done that except that I was surprised to find out that this PC only has one socket for an IDE cable. It has two on-board IDE controllers though! (this is an HP Kayak XU with dual PII processors, a little on the old side, but it's the only i386 SMP system that I have access to at the moment). > > > If you can boot from the SCSI, check the dmesg there to see whether > > > the ATA controller is recognized by the older system. That wouldn't > > > give an absolute answer, but might yield a clue. > > > > The older system can see the CD-ROM drive, so it must be recognizing > > the ATA controller. I'll post the relevant dmesg output tomorrow > > though. Here is the relevant dmesg output: atapci0: port 0xfcd0-0xfcdf at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 ... ad0: 76319MB [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: CDROM at ata0-slave PIO4 Thanks for your helpful replies, -brian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com