Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 10:10:01 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: jwb@ulysses.att.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager woes Message-ID: <199601250910.KAA05242@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199601241854.KAA12126@freefall.freebsd.org> from "jwb@ulysses.att.com" at Jan 24, 96 01:52:10 pm
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> > > Hi All, > > I've been trying to get a boot manager to work on my machine > that would allow me to boot FreeBSD without having to type > hd(1,a)/kernel at the boot prompt and have yet to be able to > do it. > > The setup I have is a Gateway 486 with an internal ide drive(C) and > 2 external scsi's on Adaptec 1542cp with bios boot on. I have FreeBSD > on the first of the two scsi's When I loaded 2.1.0R, it deactivated > the partitions on the ide, but didn't install the boot manager. I don't know if it might be a problem that you disbled the IDE drives during installation. The installation gives you the choice which drive you want to install on so there is no need to disable the IDE drives (but you you might want to use the latest boot.flp since the original install messed with the bootblock of the 0 drive number when installing on a different one - so disabling the drives was a matter of instinct with you :)) I would suggest to repeat the installation with all controllers enabled - if the install messes with your IDE bootrecord, re-install it later. > > When I loaded booteasy17, it load ok on the ide and scsi, but didn't > seem to recognize the scsi in the ide bootmanager. That is there > was nothing shown for FreeBSD on the scsi or the scsi. (but when I hit F5 > it did switch to the scsi boot manager, but wouldn't boot.) > > So I decided to try osbs-beta. It seems to load all right When I start > FreeBSD from the menu I get the boot prompt. If I let it timeout, it > says booting from sd(1,a), boots from goes through the boot then say: > > Changing Root device to sd1a > panic can't mount root I have one machine with a similar setup and I'm using OSBS20B8. 2 IDE controllers, one ncr/pci controller with SCSI disk. Works fine here. > > If I enter hd(1,a)/kernel at the boot prompt, it says booting from sd(0,a) > and boots and starts up normally. > > > Any ideas as to what I need to do to resolve this, or will I need to continue > to enter hd(1,a)/kernel at the boot prompt??? > > Jim Ballantine > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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