Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:02:21 -0700 From: "Joseph I. Davida" <jd@alumni.cs.uwm.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Booting from 2nd drive Message-ID: <344BAABD.E882185D@alumni.cs.uwm.edu>
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Hi. I have posed this question (problem, actually) to this group before. Recently I changed my motherboard from an Asus XP55T2P4 (it died), with an AIR P5TXI. And that is when the problems began. I have freeBSD 3.0 Snap installed on the main IDE drive's second partition, and on the SCSI drive. Both drives have the booter installed. After I turn on the machine, and bios goes through it's probes, the booter runs and reports: File boot.config not found and then it gives me the option to enter F1 to boot DOS or F2 to boot FreeBSD or F5 Entering F5 gives me options F1 to boot BSD or F5 Pressing F1 to boot FreeBSD I get the scrolling message Error: D:0x81 C:0 H:0 S:0 I get the same scrolling error if I select F2 from the first set of choices, and attempt to boot from 1:sd(0,a)kernel The only way I can boot from the SCSI drive now is to go into bios and set my IDE drive type to NONE, and set the bios boot option to start with SCSI first. However, if I do this, FreeBSD cannot mount the IDE drive's dos partition, since bios will not detect the IDE drive. P.S: The scsi controller is Adaptec 2940-UW, which for some strange reason, reports the scsi drive connected to it as C: (even when the main IDE drive is enabled and detected by motherboard's bios).
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