Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 19:25:51 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: wes@intele.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting off SCSI disks when two IDE disks also installed. Message-ID: <199603240855.TAA24127@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199603240736.AAA01522@obie.softweyr.com> from "wes@intele.net" at Mar 24, 96 00:36:31 am
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wes@intele.net stands accused of saying: > > I've recently added an Adaptec SCSI controller to my system, which > already has two IDE drives. I would like to boot FreeBSD from the > SCSI disk, but this doesn't seem to be working. I'm certain I have That's because it's impossible. You can only boot from the first two disks in your system. This is basically a BIOS limitation. > So, why won't my system boot from the SCSI drive? From the FreeBSD > boot prompt, I've tried hd(1,a) (which should be the "slave" IDE Wrong. hd(1,a), as described by the prompt, boots the first SCSI disk when there is one IDE disk in the system. > drive, right?), hd(2,a), which causes the system to reboot, and > sd(0,a), which also causes the system to reboot. Neither of these would help. > I've also tried both booteasy and OS-BS. Any help? Put a root filesystem on the IDE disk. > Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late > Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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