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Date:      Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:12:01 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?
Message-ID:  <200701121312.01585.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <1D170045-5A43-4C93-AFDC-19C44CEDB0F5@svcolo.com>
References:  <E22808FA-5C42-443E-AA32-0DA3247077AC@svcolo.com> <200701121216.25185.jhb@freebsd.org> <1D170045-5A43-4C93-AFDC-19C44CEDB0F5@svcolo.com>

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On Friday 12 January 2007 12:37, Jo Rhett wrote:
> Okay, let me make this really clear.  My BIOS doesn't tell me which  
> drive is which, and the BIOS of the 3ware card doesn't tell me what  
> number the drive is going to be labeled either.
> 
> I need some command I can run from the freebsd CD to tell me what  
> freebsd observes.
> 
> Like I mentioned before, lsdev only showed me a single drive.

Then the 3ware BIOS doesn't let the boot software see your second drive,
so there's no way to load /boot/loader off that drive since boot2 and
the loader both rely on the BIOS to talk to drives.  End of story.

-- 
John Baldwin



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