From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 5 10:10:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA06942 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 May 1997 10:10:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from florence.pavilion.net (mailrelay1.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA06933 for ; Mon, 5 May 1997 10:10:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pegasus (dialup2-27.pavilion.co.uk [194.242.131.155]) by florence.pavilion.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA22975; Mon, 5 May 1997 18:08:53 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970505180830.00f86348@mailhost.pavilion.co.uk> X-Sender: johnof@mailhost.pavilion.co.uk X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 18:08:30 +0100 To: The Classiest Man Alive From: "John O'Farrell" Subject: Re: Installing FBSD on a second hard disk. Cc: FreeBSD Hackers , Joe Karthauser In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.1.32.19970505153502.00f6fab8@mailhost.pavilion.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:57 05/05/97 -0400, you wrote: >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. > Hello again, I've tried a complete reinstallation as above ie after setting the Jaz as the bootable drive. It does now boot to the Jaz but ends with panic; cannot mount root. It gives the boot option of F1 for BSD or F5 second disk but attempts to boot BSD no matter which is selected. So I have had to use the SCSI bios to change the boot drive back to the Seagate, which now loads Windows NT. During installation I noticed; Disk sd1 Partition Name sd1s1 Part Mount Size Newfs sd1s1a / 32 MB UFS Y sd1s1b 138 MB SWAP sd1s1e /var 30 Mb UFS Y sd1s1f /usr 820 MB UFS Y Does this help at all with regard to what I should try entering a the boot: prompt? I have tried 0:sd(1,a)/kernel and 0:sd(1,a)kernel without success. Error D:0X81 C:0 H:0 S:0 Error D:0X81 C:0 H:0 S:0 etc. -- John O'Farrell mailto:john@o-farrell.com http://www.o-farrell.com/ +44 (0)1273 709144