Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:52:35 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Cc: jwb@ulysses.att.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager woes Message-ID: <199601251052.LAA05456@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199601250910.KAA05242@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Jan 25, 96 10:10:01 am
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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. Ooops, I must correct myself: I'm booting off wd1 on that machine so it doesn't compare to your case. > > > > > 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 > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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