From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 12:09:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03085 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:09:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02937 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:09:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA27918; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:08:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:08:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Gary Kline cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting from SCSI-2 In-Reply-To: <199802240057.QAA13458@athena.tera.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Is there a way of hacking the kernel so that I can boot from > > > my 2nd SCSI drive? > > > > No kernel changes necessary. > > > Well, then if I put that 0:sd(1,a) in /boot.config > FBSD should work, correct? ---By the way, I've > got v2.1.5 installed. I'll upgrade via the net > once my PLIP link works. Oh, yeah, you will need the newer bootblocks; 2.1.5 didn't support the /boot.* files yet. > > Make sure you boot from the first; the BIOS may not be able to see the > > third drive. > > > > Yes!! It took me hours to figure this out. > I've got my Deb root on unit 0, SWAP and so > forth on 2. Sounds good. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message