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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:29:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@pobox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: boot on SCSI gets stuck at F1 Freebsd
Message-ID:  <200004181929.PAA03515@server.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10004181926360.14209-100000@phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org>

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On 18-Apr-00 Simon J Mudd wrote:
> I'm having trouble booting from a SCSI disk into FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE and
> 4.0-STABLE.
> 
> The boot gets stuck at "F1 Freebsd" and then doesn't do anything.
> 
> I've been booting by hand from a 3.3-RELEASE CDROM typing
> 
> 0:da(0,a)/kernel at the cdrom's boot prompt
> 
> and this works fine.
> 
> With linux I had to modify lilo.conf to include the "linear" option (which
> from the man page generates linear sector address rather than
> sector/head/cylinder addresses).

man boot0cfg.  You want to turn on packet mode in boot0 it sounds like.

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