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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 1997 14:08:28 +0900
From:      Tetsuro FURUYA <tfuruya@galois.tf.or.jp>
To:        jd@alumni.cs.uwm.edu
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, ht5t-fry@asahi-net.or.jp
Subject:   Re: Boot from SCSI
Message-ID:  <199710150508.OAA11194@galois.tf.or.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:30:18 -0700"
References:  <344438CA.4DCF4AB1@alumni.cs.uwm.edu>

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From: "Joseph I. Davida" <jd@alumni.cs.uwm.edu>
Subject: Boot from SCSI
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:30:18 -0700
Message-ID: <344438CA.4DCF4AB1@alumni.cs.uwm.edu>
Reply-To: 

jd>     I have an IDE drive with 2 partitions: 1 is Win 95, and 2 is
jd> FreeBSD.
jd>     I also have a SCSI disk, which is all 1 partition (FreeBSD).
jd> 
jd>     The problem I am having is this:
jd> 
jd>     I can boot unix from the IDE drive (which has the boot selector
jd> installed)
jd>     but I cannot boot unix from the scsi drive.
jd> 
jd>     At the boot prompt, I can only boot from   0:wd(0,a)kernel
jd>     but I cannot boot from   1:sd(0,a)kernel. It gives me a scrolling
jd>     error message:
jd> status: d:0 c:0 ...etc
jd> 
jd>     In addition when I press F5 to go to the 2nd disk (SCSI),
jd>     I get the options F1 (BSD) or F5 . Pressing F1 also
jd>     causes the same error message to be scrolled.
jd> 
jd>     When I boot freebsd from the ide drive, I can mount the scsi
jd>     drive partitions as  /sd0a  and /sd0a/usr
jd> 
jd>     So, why can I not boot from the scsi drive?
jd>     Is the booter on the SCSI drive corrupted?
jd>     How do I re-install the booter back on the scsi drive?
jd> 
jd>     Regards,
jd> 
jd>     Joe
jd> 

Dear sir,

I have also IDE-drive and SCSI-drive.
My FreeBSD is installed in SCSI-drive and I can boot from it.
My method is to separate IDE-drive by BIOS setting,
and to make SCSI-drive boot drive.
To communicate IDE-drive, I make MS-DOS partion on SCSI-drive.
I've never tried, but  to make second SCSI-drive bootable,
first SCSI drive must be separated by SCSI Bios setting.
There may be better ways, and you may analyse source code
in the last resort.

Tetsuro Furuya.
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