Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 09:48:12 From: GreggD@CaddMicro.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Booting from sd1 at BIOS Drive 0 Message-ID: <9608128425.AA842546892@caddmic.CADDMICRO.COM>
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I have a P133 system from Iwill (Quick Technologies)
The M-Board has an Adaptec 2940 integrated.
In the SCSI Select BIOS utility, it will let me select the SCSI ID of
the primary drive (BIOS 0)
I have a 1GB Seagate Hawk at ID0 (Windows/Windows NT WS 4.0b)
I have a 2GB Seagate Barracuda at ID1 (FreeBSD 2.2 960801-SNAP)
When installing, the Barracuda was the BIOS 0 bootable drive, and
sysinstall put a bootblock on this device correctly...sort of....
The only problem is, if I neglect to type "0:sd(1,a)/kernel" at the
"Boot:" prompt, the system understandably panics when trying to mount
/ on sd(0,a).
I've tried a coupla things with the bootcode in
/sys/i386/boot/biosboot, but the documentation in the readmes and in
the makefile are all oriented to making it easy to boot from sd0 as
BIOS disk 1 (after a wd drive or two....)
Nothing I've found talks about booting from sd1 as BIOS disk 0.
Any suggestions?
TIA
-Gregg Discenza
CADD Microsystems, Inc.
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