From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 04:17:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA05742 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 04:17:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA05721 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 04:17:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id NAA16506; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 13:17:35 +0200 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (MAA00898); Wed, 7 Aug 1996 12:01:51 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199608071201.MAA00898@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: 2.1.5-RELEASE generic kernel panics looking for mythical sd1a root To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 12:01:51 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Aug 6, 96 09:24:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, James E. Leinweber wrote: > > > Bravo! The kernel duely informed me that the syntax to force it to use the BIOS > > device 1 (i.e, the SCSI disk in a two disk IDE + SCSI computer) is: > > > > 1:sd(0,a)kernel Well, another question, from another person: what does the 1: means? (On my 2.1R machine's man 8 boot, there isn't anything about it, only controller(unit,part)/filename.) -- Gabor Zahemszky -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky