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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:40:06 -0800
From:      Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com>
To:        Steve Watt <steve@Watt.COM>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?
Message-ID:  <1612EE46-1153-4115-9403-FE8CCFB0D2B8@svcolo.com>
In-Reply-To: <200701210940.l0L9eett037709@wattres.watt.com>
References:  <E22808FA-5C42-443E-AA32-0DA3247077AC@svcolo.com> <45A78CA4.30903@sh.cvut.cz> <200701210940.l0L9eett037709@wattres.watt.com>

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On Jan 21, 2007, at 1:40 AM, Steve Watt wrote:

> In <45A7B081.6040504@svcolo.com>, jrhett@svcolo.com wrote:
>> V=E1clav Haisman wrote:
>>> What does lsdev or whatever it was say? Does it show any devices =20
>>> besides
>>> the raw disks?
>>
>> So I booted from CD and ran lsdev, and showed something like this =20
>> (from
>> memory)
>>
>> 0: Drive A
>> 2: Disk 0
>>     1: FFS
>
> You need to get into your SCSI BIOS (don't know what the key
> sequence is for 3ware, it's ^A for Adaptec) at the correct time
> and enable the disk for booting.  As shown here, there's no chance
> of it being bootable.

Thanks, but I didn't need any help with the SCSI BIOS.  The question =20
was only how to determine what devices are visible to FreeBSD.  =20
Apparently 3ware only shows a single LUN to the BIOS, even when it =20
shows multiple LUNs to the booted system.

--=20
Jo Rhett
senior geek
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