Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 13:33:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adding IDE to SCSI Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970102133104.451C-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199701022022.OAA26058@horton.iaces.com>
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On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Paul T. Root wrote: > In a previous message, Doug White said: > > On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Paul T. Root wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to add an IDE drive to a previously all SCSI 486 system. > > > > Be prepared -- this will cause wierd things to happen. FreeBSD has > > trouble detecting the boot disk in these cases. > > I don't care if FreeBSD will see the IDE, in fact, I probably won't > add it to the kernel. I have a SyQuest drive if I need to move stuff between > the OS and Windows. It will anyway. :) > > > However the first time I did this, I got the > > > "operating system missing" message when trying to boot FreeBSD or the > > > old Win slice. > > > > Did you run Fdisk and make sure that the active partition is set to the > > Win95 one on the IDE disk? FreeBSD will reset the active partition bit > > and if it's on the second disk it won't boot. > > So the second disk (SCSI sd0) should not have anything set as active? Yeah, I think so. That will cause the system to try to boot your IDE disk which will have booteasy on it. > That may be another problem. > > > > I have 2 possiblities for this: > > > 1) I installed booteasy on the IDE drive via a DOS shell under > > > Win95. (and left OS/BS on the SCSI disk) > > > > That failed. > > Ok. > > > > 2) When installing booteasy, I had ROM shadowing on for the IDE > > > controller. It's manual said not to. > > > > I have it on and it doesn't cause any problems. > > I have this pseudo intelligent IDE controller from GSI. It says to not > have Shadowing on when you're configuring drives, which I would guess > putting booteasy or OS/BS on would qualify. Perhaps. You might try disabling it's onboard BIOS. What model of card is it? > > > I installed 2.2 Beta as from what I read, 2.1.[56] wouldn't be able to > > > handle sd0 as sd0 when it's not the first BIOS disk. > > > > Well, sort of. It won't be able to figure out how to boot it without a > > clue from the Boot: prompt.. > > So I'll still have to type sd(1,a)/kernel at the boot prompt? > Ick. Maybe a 120 meg partition for / and swap on the IDE is a better route? I hope you don't get stuck in that rut. You can split it if you like, but that's a pain to install. :( > > > Also, somehow the SCSI disks slice information got written onto the > > > IDE drive. I think this might have something to do with the shadowing. > > > > That shouldn't have happened. Are you sure you installed to the right > > disk? > > Yeah, I pulled the SCSI's and it was still like that. Like I said, pseudo > intelligent controller. I would say not-very-intelligent controller. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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