From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 4 12:46:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA28817 for current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 12:46:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jupiter.stochastik.rwth-aachen.de (root@jupiter.Stochastik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.106.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA28812 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 12:46:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saturn.stochastik.rwth-aachen.de (saturn.stochastik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.106.8]) by jupiter.stochastik.rwth-aachen.de (8.7.4/BuGless_1.03/MS1.00) with ESMTP id VAA01607 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 21:45:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: Guido Muesch Received: (from odiug@localhost) by saturn.stochastik.rwth-aachen.de (8.7.5/BuGless_fw_1.01) id VAA03670 for current@freebsd.org; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 21:43:21 +0100 (WET DST) Message-Id: <199609042043.VAA03670@saturn.stochastik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: booting from SCSI problem To: current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 21:43:21 +0100 (WET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have two hard drives: One IDE (170MB DOS) and one SCSI (2GB with FreeBSD in first slice) and booteasy installed in both MBRs. After first installing FreeBSD without checking out the Bios geometry of the drive I could not boot FreeBSD. OK, I read about the >1GB problem with SCSI disks and Bios later and reinstalled FreeBSD. Bootprocess is now as follows: F5 -> switch to SCSI disk. F1 -> booting kernel from first slice of the SCSI disk. The kernel boots fine, but thinks the SCSI disk is sd(1,a) and so fails to mount the root partition. OK, I can type '-r' all the time to get the compiled in rootdevice. But can this not be made the default? Or am I missing something else? Ciao Guido