From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 9 08:27:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA19772 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 08:27:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA19765 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 08:27:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA10318 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for questions@FreeBSD.org); Tue, 9 Jan 1996 17:27:05 +0100 Message-Id: <199601091627.AA10318@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 17:27:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: rdame@access.digex.net "unable to boot from scsi drive" (Jan 8, 18:05) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: rdame@access.digex.net Subject: Re: unable to boot from scsi drive Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Jan 8, 18:05, rdame@access.digex.net wrote: } Subject: unable to boot from scsi drive } I recently installed FreeBSD on my SCSI II drive. FreeBSD is installed on the second partition of sd0 and a small } DOS partition is on the first partition of that drive. However, when I try to boot it I receive a Panic message that the } kernel cannot be mounted on the sd0a partition and sds1 will be tried. Then the system re-starts. The only way that I can } boot the drive is to Use hd(1,a)/kernel at the boot prompt. I have a line in the kernel configuration file " config kernel } root on sds1a". I have tried "config kernel root on sd0a. I previously had one drive with a Western Digital controller } which allowed me to boot with the FreeBSD on the second partition of wd0. Any advice would be appreciated. You will have to temporarily disconnect the IDE, boot the SCSI disk (which will then be sd0), and then configure a kernel with sd1 assigned to your SCSI drive bus and target ID in the kernel config file (in /sys/i386/conf/): disk sd1 at scbus0 target 0 Then you have to change all references to sd0 in /etc/fstab into sd1. Once you installed the kernel, you can reenable the IDE drive and FreeBSD will do the right thing. Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se