From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 12 15:56:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CF0016A52B for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:56:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) Received: from kininvie.sv.svcolo.com (kininvie.sv.svcolo.com [64.13.135.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D2913C455 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:56:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) Received: from [172.16.12.22] (covad-jrhett.meer.net [209.157.140.144]) (authenticated bits=0) by kininvie.sv.svcolo.com (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l0CFu4KU001718; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:56:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) Message-ID: <45A7AF93.1010803@svcolo.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:56:03 -0800 From: Jo Rhett Organization: Silicon Valley Colocation User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <09710CBA-0006-4502-B5F7-6048B290D3B8@svcolo.com> <200701121025.15555.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200701121025.15555.jhb@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: undef - SENDER Whitelisted (jrhett@svcolo.com: Mail from user authenticated via SMTP AUTH allowed always) X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Canit-Stats-ID: 43858 - 3dc8b744f2cb X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 64.13.135.12 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:56:09 -0000 John Baldwin wrote: > A BIOS driver number is the number you pass to the BIOS to access a drive. > Typically drive 0x0 is a floppy drive and hard drives start at 0x80. > Usually the SCSI BIOS will list the BIOS driver number during the POST > messages and it will look like 80, 81, etc. There is no standard way > as it is at the BIOS' discretion. How do I determine this? It doesn't list them during boot. Say I boot off the CD, is there any commands I can use to determine what the BIOS numbers are? They are da0 and da1 to freebsd. > To answer your question: you need to first make sure your SCSI BIOS is > registering your second disk with the BIOS. Assuming it's mapped as > drive 81, you can then use '1:da(1,a)'. If it shows up as drive 82, then > use 2:da(1,a)', etc. How does one do so? -- Jo Rhett senior geek Silicon Valley Colocation