From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 24 00:38:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA13043 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 00:38:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA13031 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 00:38:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA24127; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 19:25:51 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603240855.TAA24127@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Booting off SCSI disks when two IDE disks also installed. To: wes@intele.net Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 19:25:51 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603240736.AAA01522@obie.softweyr.com> from "wes@intele.net" at Mar 24, 96 00:36:31 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[