From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 18 12:34:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38DDE37BBEA for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:34:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03515; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:29:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200004181929.PAA03515@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:29:30 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Simon J Mudd Subject: RE: boot on SCSI gets stuck at F1 Freebsd Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message