From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 26 11:51:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27226 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 11:51:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27214 for ; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 11:51:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 0ztzjb-00028G-00; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 19:50:48 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id TAA01813; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 19:50:23 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07383; Sat, 26 Dec 98 19:50:20 GMT Message-Id: <36853CF3.6C237245@uk.radan.com> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 19:45:55 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Timothy J Luoma Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installed on sd2a, changing boot device in BIOS References: <199812260622.BAA00637@ocalhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Timothy J Luoma wrote: > > Hi folks > > Well I've just finished a fresh install (my first) off the 2.2.7 CDs (should > have been 2.2.8 but Amazon.com sent the old ones). > > I installed on sd2a, expecting to change the boot device to sd2a using the > Adaptec BIOS (2940a U). > > It gets to the boot prompt, and then says "can't find kernel" :-( > > My guess is that I ought to be able to give it some command there to help it > find the kernel, but I'm not sure what that would be. > I would expect it to be ``sd(2,a)''. Mind you, if you been changing the SCSI BIOS to make it the boot drive it may now be sd0 (I'm not sure about this, but it may be the case if you set it up so the BIOS finds it as the _only_ boot disk) > I tried a few variations but none of them seemed to work for me (all said > the same thing: can't find kernel). > You could try ``sd(2,a)?'' and different variations, e.g. ``2:sd(2,a)?'' etc. The ``?'' makes it list the files in the root directory of the specified drive/partition. I'd try it with all combinations from `0:sd(0,a)?'' to ``2:sd(2,a)?'' until it lists a file called ``kernel''. HTH > I've got a perfectly working setup using sd0a for Win95, and sd1a for > OpenStep (aka NeXTstep ver 4) and wanted to keep FBSD separate on its own > drive. > > Is this possible? I chose "dangerously dedicated" when doing the install, > to ignore the disk geometry message which I didn't understand, plus I want to > devote this drive (1gig) entirely to FreeBSD. > > Thanks for any pointers > > TjL > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message