Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 12:56:20 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Documenters <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org>, mollers.pad@sni.de, festremera@shell.monmouth.com Subject: Re: Confused!!!! (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960214124807.12041O-100000@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199602141531.QAA17350@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de>
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On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: > Forwarded message: > > > From: Frank J Estremera <festremera@shell.monmouth.com> > > > > I am so confused as to how to boot FreeBSD from a boot manager, while on a > > second drive. I have an internal IDE drive running Windows95. I also have a > > secondary SCSI drive (device 0), totally devoted to FreeBSD. I do have Sounds like my setup, minus the Windows95. > Could it be that the lack of replies to this message is the result of > everybody else being confused as well? I currently can't get near a > running FreeBSD system, and I honestly don't know a good answer, but I > get the feeling that we have a bug which manifests itself when using > booteasy when FreeBSD is not on the first drive. I've had another > report of this kind of problem here at SNI, and in this case I'm > pretty sure it wasn't user error. Any comments from others? My first drive is an IDE and is dedicated to the various lesser operating systems (currently DOS, Windoze, and OS/2). The second drive (SCSI ID 0) is FreeBSD. The only problem I had booting of the second drive was figuring out that I had to type hd0 at the boot prompt or FreeBSD would get confused about where its root partition was. (I've since made new bootblocks with this as the default. I've also since given up booteasy for the OS/2 bootmanager.) My understanding is that failing to find bootblocks is frequently evidence of geometry translation problems. Also, I have an Adaptec 1542C and to boot from the second drive, I had to enable the BIOS on the controller, otherwize booteasy wouldn't detect the existance of the SCSI drive. That is about as much light as I can shed on the issue. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============
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