From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 6 21:35:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA19375 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:35:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA19319 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:35:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from peeper.jackson.org ([208.128.8.172]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id PAA26472 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 15:01:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tom@localhost) by peeper.jackson.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id QAA05429; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 16:59:14 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19970406165913.28619@peeper.jackson.org> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 16:59:13 -0500 From: Tom Jackson To: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Booting SCSI first over IDE References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69e In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Sat, Apr 05, 1997 at 11:53:29AM -0800 Reply-To: toj@gorilla.net Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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"