From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 26 22:20:52 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA29731 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 22:20:52 -0700 Received: from queeg.com (brion@queeg.com [204.95.70.218]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA29725 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 22:20:45 -0700 Received: (from brion@localhost) by queeg.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA06909 for freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 22:20:37 -0700 From: Brion Moss Message-Id: <199510270520.WAA06909@queeg.com> Subject: can't boot off SCSI drive To: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 22:20:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 931 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I just bought a computer with an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card and a Fujitsu 29155A hard drive. I was able to boot up and install off CD-ROM with no problems (the disk partitioning utility forced me to start the root partition at offset 32, and wouldn't let me use the last few cylinders, but otherwise things got created okay, the files got installed and I can look around when booted off floppy) but I can't boot off of the hard drive. If I try to just boot up, it give a "drive not ready" error and asks for a floppy; if I put in the floppy and tell it to boot off of "sd(0,a)/kernel" it spews an apparently infinite number of "Error: C:0 H:0 S:0" messages to my screen. I've tied disabling the Adaptec BIOS and the >1024 cyl emulation, but it hasn't helped. The rest of the system info: it's a P133 on an Intel Zappa motherboard using an AMI BIOS. (yes, I've gone through all the FAQs and archives...) Many thanks... -Brion