Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 15:39:47 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com> To: KeyWORLD <mailing@keyworld.net> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with SCSI disks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980602150653.255A-100000@quark.ChrisBowman.com> In-Reply-To: <199806021337.PAA00533@mail.keyworld.net>
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On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, KeyWORLD wrote: >Hi all, > >After installing FreeBSD 2.2.2 and 2.2.5, and trying to reboot from a >Fujitsu 4.3G SCSI hard disk, I always get the message saying No Bootable >Partition. >I have also 4 IDE devices installed. > >When I get into the FDISK program from the installation, I see that the >partition on the SCSI hard disk is still not set to active (typing s from >the fdisk program) >Even by doing so again and again, it still does not boot up. > >I have formatted the hard disk using the FDISK 32-bit install disk which >comes with (sorry about this) Windows 95 and after formatting the hd with >the system files, it boots up as usual. > >I also tried making a low level format and no go. I also have a mixed IDE SCSI system on which I boot FreeBSD and Win 95. I don't know if the FreeBSD boot loader (BootEasy) will boot from the SCSI drive on a mixed system. I did the following. I have installed Win 95 on my IDE drive. I installed FreeBSD on my second SCSI drive. I used OS-BS version 2.0 beta 8 (this seems to be the latest free version) booter available on the FreeBSD CDROM (tools folder in a self extracting archive called Osbsbeta) I used this to create a boot up screen which gives me 15 seconds to select an OS and then boot into FreeBSD if none is selected. It can also be set to mark as active which ever partition it finally decides to boot from. This works fine for Win 95 since it is on the IDE drive. But FreeBSD gets confused about the boot disk when attempting to load the root partition so I needed to boot using the command 2:sd(1,a)/kernel which tells FreeBSD to boot from BIOS disk 2 (First IDE is 0 first SCSI is 1 second SCSI is 2) second DOS partion/FreeBSD slice (my first partition on the second scsi drive has is a DOS partition) and then use the a partition inside the FreeBSD slice. Once you have FreeBSD running you can put the 2:sd(1,a)/kernel command in a file called /boot.config and it will be done automagically for you from then on. Hope this helps. I would be happy to answer any questions if I can. --------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@ChrisBowman.com <A HREF="http://www.ChrisBowman.com">My home page</A> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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