From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 7: 4:37 2003 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 6EBDE37B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:04:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AFA043FCB for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:04:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by mail.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A665E2F9 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:04:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8339F2FDBFA; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:04:31 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:04:31 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions Subject: cannot boot from a SCSI disk Message-ID: <20030212150431.GC81356@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, I have a problem with getting one system boot from a SCSI disk. The system was installed on an IDE disk, and then dump|restored to the SCSI one. I used /stand/sysinstall's fdisk to mark the slice bootable, and install the standard MBR, but all I got was "Missing operating system". If I install booteasy, it shows the menu, but doesn't boot from the SCSI disk. I've since then tried many different things, but since this area is a bit Greek to me, I'm not sure what's wrong. The disk (or the data on it) is fine: I have the box booted off of an IDE disk, with all filesystems, including /, mounted from the SCSI one. It just doesn't want to boot. It doesn't even get to the >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: prompt. I've realized I don't have a fscking idea about how booting works, especially in FreeBSD. Pretty embarrasing. :( -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message