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Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 15:36:30 -0700
From: Robert Clark <ROBERTC@PII.COM>
To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, chaos@mail.tgci.com, chaos@tgci.com
Subject: I dealt with a similar situation for awhile.
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I dealt with a similar situation for awhile.

In my case the IDE disk was only 540MB. I just got used
to turning the IDE on and off in CMOS. Even with the
drive off in CMOS, it was visable to FBSD.

I used OSBS, and think I could have made it work. I
never got around to re-building a kernel. I gave the
IDE drive to my brother, end of problem.

I would've liked to get booting FBSD from the SCSI
going, so that I could use the DOS booting program.
WHY? So that the system could autoswitch back and
forth.

									[RC]


Robert Clark (Robert.Clark@PII.COM)
Corporate Network Operations Admin
Praegitzer Industries Incorporated

>>> "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@mail.tgci.com> 05/14/97
07:38am >>>
I've seen similar stuff here, but not quite the problem
I'm having.  
Nothing in a (quick) search of the archives, either.

I'm currently running 2.1.7-R on an IDE drive (1.2 GB
Maxtor).  Has a 
50MB DOS partition, the rest fbsd.

The second drive, which will (hopefully) soon replace
the above, is a 
Seagate ST51080N 1GB scsi riding a 2940W.

The scsi has a 50 MB DOS partition, and I did an ftp
install of 
2.2.1-R on the remainder.  And I can't boot from it. 
Usually.  
Installed booteasy, comes up F1 dos, F2 FBSD, F5 Second
Disk.  If I 
press F5 it then shows F? and nothing works.

If I disable (bios) the ide drive, it boots F1 F2, but
again gives F? 
when pressed.

With both drives enabled and pressing F2 for the IDE
drive, if at the 
boot prompt  I type in sd(0,a)/kernel which should be
the scsi 2.2.1, 
it boots 2.1.7.

(Don't know if it means anything, but the root of the
second disk did 
not have a "kernal", just kernel.GENERIC, which I
copied. )

I *can* boot 2.2.1 if I disable the IDE and use the
boot floppy.  
I've played around in sysinstall's disk labeller to
make the drive 
bootable, doesn't help. 

One more thing, the bootinst table for booteasy  shows
neither the 
DOS or fbsd partitions as bootable on the scsi disk.

Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

tia,

Riley