Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:21:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Joe Davida <jd@slip129-37-223-73.ca.us.ibm.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot from 2nd disk Message-ID: <199710150721.AAA01042@slip129-37-223-73.ca.us.ibm.net>
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A few weeks ago, I could boot freebsd either from the ide drive or the scsi drive. But that was before my ASUS motherboard died and had to purchase another one. Since I changed my motherboard from an ASUS XP55T2P4 (which has been returned to ASUS for repair), to an AIR P5TXI, I have not been able to boot from my 2nd drive which is a seagate SCSI-2 drive. The first drive is a Fujitsu 2.5 gig ide drive. The ide drive has windows 95 and freebsd partitions, and I can boot either (off of the ide, via the booter). However, I am unable to boot from the SCSI drive. This is something new (since I changed the motherboard). To boot unix from the ide drive, I can let the booter boot the default (as per the prior selection - such as F1 for windows 95, or F2 for FreeBSD) after a timeout. However, if I select F5 (which causes the booter to read the partition info off of the SCSI drive) and reports only one option: F1 for BSD or F5 for other disk (i.e. ide). Now if I select F1 to boot freebsd off of the scsi, I get the following scrolling message: Error: D:0x81 C:0 H:0 S:0 I assume the error is a hard disk error? at Cylinder 0, Head 0, Sector 0? (Dont know what D:0x81 is). Might be a data byte? Has anyone experienced this? I have re-installed the booter on the scsi disk (using the dos program bootinst.exe and the file boot.bin). It has not helped. If anyone has had this problem, please pass on any info you might have. Cheers, Joe
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