Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 16:59:13 -0500 From: Tom Jackson <tom@peeper.jackson.org> To: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting SCSI first over IDE Message-ID: <19970406165913.28619@peeper.jackson.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970405115116.5894B-100000@localhost>; from Doug White on Sat, Apr 05, 1997 at 11:53:29AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970405113005.25112B-100000@donald.iafrica.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970405115116.5894B-100000@localhost>
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On Sat, Apr 05, 1997 at 11:53:29AM -0800, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Andre Sachs [Staff] wrote: > > > I'm running 2.2-RELEASE. > > > > I have an AHA2940 with a Seagate SCSI drive and a Seagate IDE drive. When > > I enable the IDE drive in the BIOS, (after BS-OS to boot off the SCSI) > > the kernel panics because it can't mount / on sd1. Fair enough recompile > > the kernel to mount root on sd1 and it fails again. Vexing. > > > > I even tryed changing the fstab to reflect sd1. Failed again. > > Unfortunately, this is a tough case. In IDE & SCSI systems, the > bootblocks get confused with both in place and can't quite determine where > it is from the BIOS. So it guesses, and usually gets it wrong. > > There isn't much we can do for you. You can try to rebuild the bootblocks > to default to sd1a, but I don't know how to do that. The code is in > /usr/mdec. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > Best bet, put root on the ide, use booteasy, this will work fine. -- Tom Jackson I'm ProChoice->FreeBSD toj@gorilla.net http://www.freebsd.org tjackson@tulsix.utulsa.edu "Out in the Ozone Again"
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