Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 18:11:10 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Torbjorn Granlund <tege@matematik.su.se> Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from sd0 when wd0 is also present Message-ID: <321E56AE.3B54AFBF@whistle.com> References: <199608232316.BAA24325@insanus.matematik.su.se>
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Torbjorn Granlund wrote: by using the bootblocks in -current and teh 'nextboot' program from -current, you can set the default boot string.. <compile bootblock> disklabel -B sd0 boot1 boot2 (check the syntax on this) nextboot -b /dev/rsd0 1:sd(0,a)/kernel > > I got a cheap IDE drive for use as a DOS/Windoze disk. > Thus, I can use the entire SCSI disk for FreeBSD. > > Unfortunately, this makes autoboot fail, with a message that reads something > like "Unable to change root to sd1". The SCSI drive is, of course, sd0. > But it seems that the FreeBSD boot loader incorrectly counts wd0 as if it > were the first SCSI device in this case. > > To me, this seems like a bug. But maybe it is a feature...? Is there a > workaround (less get a dummy SCSI disk with a lower SCSI id :-) ? > > I can get things to work in the way indicated by the text early in the boot > process, but such a manual boot method is not acceptable in the long run. > > I am using FreeBSD 2.1 and am now moving to 2.1.5. > > Torbjorn
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