From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Jun 17 02:34:06 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA15789 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 02:34:06 -0700 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA15782 for <bugs@FreeBSD.org>; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 02:34:01 -0700 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id RAA18958; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 17:57:56 +1000 Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 17:57:56 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Message-Id: <199506170757.RAA18958@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU Subject: Re: 2.05R panics on boot Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Only one case can't possibly work: loading the bootstrap off a floppy >> and then attempting to boot from a hard disk (e.g., by typing >> sd(1,a)/kernel). The boot code doesn't know about DM, so it won't >> work if DM needs to be loaded. >> >Right now the only way I can boot up FreeBSD system on the Ontrack DM >system is by using boot.flp and entering wd(1,a)/kernel. This is very >annoying. I have not tried and I doubt if I can access the msdos stuff >from FreeBSD for now. This seems to be the case that I said can't work. Apparently wd1 doesn't have Ontrack on it, but Ontrack on the boot disk adjusts for all disks. Bruce