From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 23 23:37:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA09188 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 23:37:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (slcmodem1-p1-11.intele.net [206.29.206.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA09182 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 23:37:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA01522; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 00:36:31 -0700 Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 00:36:31 -0700 Message-Id: <199603240736.AAA01522@obie.softweyr.com> From: wes@intele.net To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Booting off SCSI disks when two IDE disks also installed. Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've recently added an Adaptec SCSI controller to my system, which already has two IDE drives. I would like to boot FreeBSD from the SCSI disk, but this doesn't seem to be working. I'm certain I have the boot ROMs enabled on the SCSI adapter, and the SCSI drive contains the GENERICAH kernel from the 2.1.0 CD-ROM. So, why won't my system boot from the SCSI drive? From the FreeBSD boot prompt, I've tried hd(1,a) (which should be the "slave" IDE drive, right?), hd(2,a), which causes the system to reboot, and sd(0,a), which also causes the system to reboot. I've also tried both booteasy and OS-BS. Any help? -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffett