From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 8 14:53:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA17060 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:53:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA17055 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:53:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA01988; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:52:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:52:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Daniel C. Konnoff" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot problems with scsi disks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Daniel C. Konnoff wrote: > Question 1) We are having boot problems using Adaptec 294x SCSI > PCI controllers with freebsd-2.1.7 and 2.2.2 on various clone > machines, HP Netservers, and Dec PCs (hardware type does not seem > to matter). [...] > However on those machines with IDE controllers, we may boot > freebsd from the ide disk and then mount the scsi drives. This confirms > that freebsd was in fact installed. > > We have not been able to reliably boot from any Adaptec controlled > SCSI drive running freebsd. Can you shed some light on this? Do your Adaptec controllers have BIOSes on them? You can't boot from BIOS-less adapters -- they don't know how to talk to the world until a driver initializes them. > Question 2) Take a look at the following diagram please: I'm not familiar enough with ppp aliasing to know what's going on in this case, I'll leave it for someone else to answer. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major