From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 13 01:35:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA04728 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 01:35:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from bedrock.gaffaneys.com (dialup6.gaffaneys.com [134.129.252.25]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA04710 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 01:35:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from zach@localhost) by bedrock.gaffaneys.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) id DAA00880; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 03:37:28 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 03:37:28 -0600 From: zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com (Zach Heilig) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Tekram SCSI won't boot? X-Mailer: Mutt 0.50 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I just bought a Tekram DC390F, and after installing it, it refuses to boot from my SCSI disk. If I boot from the installation floppy, and run the fixit disk, I can mount the filesystems Ok, but that's hardly useful. It will not work if I try to make the FreeBSD boot loader boot from the SCSI drive either (with the sd(0,a)/kernel .. trick). I read in the manual that if the drive wasn't formatted by this controller, that it might not be recognized... but I can mount the filesystems while using that controller, so that doesn't seem to be the problem (or is it?). I tried booting with an old MS-DOS disk, and it doesn't recognize the disk either (with fdisk). I wonder if there is something else that I've forgotten to do? I sure hope I don't have to backup the filesystems and re-format... (but, if that's what I've got to do, that's what I'll do...) I'm currently back to using the sea0 driver, so I really want to get the Tekram controller working properly. -- Zach Heilig (zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com) | ALL unsolicited commercial email Support bacteria -- it's the | is unwelcome. I avoid dealing only culture some people have! | with companies that email ads.