From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 14 20:30:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA10501 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:30:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from out1.ibm.net (out1.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA10496 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:30:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jd@alumni.cs.uwm.edu) Received: from alumni.cs.uwm.edu (slip129-37-223-91.ca.us.ibm.net [129.37.223.91]) by out1.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA59648 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 03:30:10 GMT Message-ID: <344438CA.4DCF4AB1@alumni.cs.uwm.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:30:18 -0700 From: "Joseph I. Davida" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot from SCSI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have an IDE drive with 2 partitions: 1 is Win 95, and 2 is FreeBSD. I also have a SCSI disk, which is all 1 partition (FreeBSD). The problem I am having is this: I can boot unix from the IDE drive (which has the boot selector installed) but I cannot boot unix from the scsi drive. At the boot prompt, I can only boot from 0:wd(0,a)kernel but I cannot boot from 1:sd(0,a)kernel. It gives me a scrolling error message: status: d:0 c:0 ...etc In addition when I press F5 to go to the 2nd disk (SCSI), I get the options F1 (BSD) or F5 . Pressing F1 also causes the same error message to be scrolled. When I boot freebsd from the ide drive, I can mount the scsi drive partitions as /sd0a and /sd0a/usr So, why can I not boot from the scsi drive? Is the booter on the SCSI drive corrupted? How do I re-install the booter back on the scsi drive? Regards, Joe