Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 11:57:41 -0400 (EDT) From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> To: "John O'Farrell" <john@o-farrell.com> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>, Joe Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> Subject: Re: Installing FBSD on a second hard disk. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970505115203.19455B-100000@shell1.cybercom.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970505153502.00f6fab8@mailhost.pavilion.co.uk>
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On Mon, 5 May 1997, John O'Farrell wrote: > >Ok. In this case, I think I must have missed something in your > >configuration. You have an IDE disk with your Windows stuff on it; > >do you have an IDE CDROM? Have you tried other BIOS offsets with the > >syntax > > > I have an Adaptec 2940 with three SCSI devices, Seagate hawk 2 Gig drive as > sd0 running Window NT 4.0, An 8 speed SCSI CD Rom and the Jaz drive sd1. As > you say the Jaz is perfectly accessible and happy under Win NT. The only > IDE device is the 3.5 floppy disk drive. > > The Jaz drive is using SCSI ID 4 in the Adaptec SCSI bios. I have changed > this in the bios setting to ID 0 but then FreeBSD cannot find the kernel. I > have assumed that this is due to the make having been made on setting sd1 > rather than sd0? The SCSI ID of 0 (usually indicated by a switch or jumpers on the hardware) should be reserved for the bootable drive. Set the Seagate as SCSI ID 0 and choose unique numbers for the other two devices. It's probably best to make the CD-ROM have a higher number than the jaz drive, but I'm not sure it matters at all. > I could try changing the Adaptec SCSI bios for the Jaz Drive 4 to be the > boot drive and then reinstalling FreeBSD? Would this then result in the Jaz > being sd0? > > >X:sd(0,a)kernel > > Try booting by changing to "sd(1,a)kernel" (or whatever the appropriate syntax is). I think this means the second hard drive (the "1") and the first partition (the "a"). This is assuming that the Seagate and the jaz drive both have one large partition to support their respective OSes. Otherwise, change that partition appropriately. K.S.
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