From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 19 10:22:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA01088 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:22:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uswgco3.uswc.uswest.com (uswgco3.uswest.com [206.196.133.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01070 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:22:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from onewnan@uswest.com) Received: from egate2.mnet.uswest.com (egate-ne1.mnet.uswest.com [151.117.138.135]) by uswgco3.uswc.uswest.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA28052 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:44:24 -0700 (MST) Received: from centhub.mnet.uswest.com (centhub.mnet.uswest.com [151.119.130.7]) by egate2.mnet.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id LAA18939 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:44:21 -0600 (CST) Received: from notes.mnet.uswest.com (newman.uswc.uswest.com [151.119.114.143]) by centhub.mnet.uswest.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id KAA23279 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:46:27 -0700 Received: by notes.mnet.uswest.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) id 87256591.0061C6D6 ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:47:58 -0700 X-Lotus-FromDomain: USWEST From: "Owen Newnan" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <87256591.005A19C2.00@notes.mnet.uswest.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:36:44 -0700 Subject: Re: Re: Can't get drives to boot on Adaptec AHA-1520 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > For fun, you might try > 3:sd(0,a)/kernel Yup, that's how I get the streaming error messages. > Your BIOS needs to support booting from these devices. Normally, the PC > BIOS enumerates two boot devices. In your case, it's hitting the first > two IDE disks in the system. > If your BIOS does enumerate more than two boot devices, you'll need to > modify the boot block code to search those devices. The Adaptec must > present the removables as bootable devices for that to work; I know that > Zip (and Jaz) drives don't show up to my NCR as bootable devices, but my > Seagate hard drive does. An interesting wrinkle--controller boots fixed drives but not removable ones? Well anyhow, looks like I need to validate that my config can enumerate three drives under ANY OS--especially these particular drives. Any suggestions anyone how I could test this out under MSDOS, for example? Anyhow, it does seem to me the ability to boot off a removable drive would be a very desirable alternative to partitioning or dedicated hard drives for certain purposes. For example, I've got a co-worker that is thinking of installing FreeBSD on a system that she uses for home office running Win95. I'd like to to be able to steer her toward a removable drive solution rather than partitioning. Does anyone out there have boot of removables working for ANY removable drive, even IDE on the second enumerated drive (e.g., Jaz, SyJet, SparQ)? If so what drive and controllercombination? Such info might be useful to include on the hardware compatibility list. I'm getting swamped with questions@FreeBSD.ORG mail so I plan to unsubscribe in a day or so. Anyone that responds to this, I'd appreciate your copying directly to me. Cheers!