From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 15 20:15:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA29515 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 20:15:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from herculis.alphawest.com.au (herculis.alphawest.com.au [203.14.124.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA29501 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 20:15:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen.cooper@alphawest.com.au) Received: from KERIS by herculis.alphawest.com.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1458.49) id T9K3STCQ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 11:23:02 +0800 Message-ID: <3445858C.E347CACF@alphawest.com.au> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 11:10:05 +0800 From: Stephen Cooper X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kim Benn , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD attempting to boot off wrong SCSI device References: <34431183.5C8DEB04@alphawest.com.au> <344320C6.3589CC7F@alphawest.com.au> <34432F2D.32386A9C@alphawest.com.au> <199710140918.LAA00418@putte.benn.dk> Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms486A27AD3B89B3331107AB7E" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms486A27AD3B89B3331107AB7E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sorry for the multiple posts. I am trying to get the machine up as a demo at our annual showcase of security products (Firewall-1, Novell Border Manager etc) and I am rather desperate!!! The boot.config file did not appear to help, I put the line 1:sd(0,a)kernel in the file and placed the file in / with the permissions 644 root.wheel. The machine still thinks it is booting off 1:sd(1,a)kernel, but as I have said I can type the line in at boot: and it will boot OK, but it would be very useful to us to have it boot automatically. I have also tried putting the following in the kernel config file. "config kernel root on sd0 controller scbus0 at ahc0 device sd0 at scbus0 target 0 unit 0" and rebuilt the kernel. My configuration is Disk 1: 2GB IDE ("wd0") Windows NT Disk 2: 500MB Seagate SCSI (sd0) on PCI Adaptec SCSI controller (ahc0) with FreeBSD Kim Benn wrote: > In article <34432F2D.32386A9C@alphawest.com.au>, > Stephen Cooper writes: > > > >> An update, I have found that if I type in > >> "sd(0,a)kernel" at the boot prompt the system will load root from the > >> correct partition. How do I configure the boot manager to use this boot > >> device? It appears that there is a bug with the boot manager. > > I wrote to you today about this problem. Here is my setup: > > > more boot.help > Usage: bios_drive:interface(unit,partition)kernel_name options > bios_drive 0, 1, ... > interface fd, wd or sd > unit 0, 1, ... > partition a, c, ... > kernel_name name of kernel, or ? for list of files in root directory > options -a (ask name) -C (cdrom) -c (userconfig) -D (dual consoles) > -d (debug early) -g (gdb) -h (serial console) -P (probe kbd) > -r (default root) -s (single user) -v (verbose) > Examples: > 1:sd(0,a)mykernel boot `mykernel' on the first SCSI drive when one IDE > drive is present > 1:wd(2,a) boot from the second (secondary master) IDE drive > 1:sd(0,a)? list the files in the root directory on the specified > drive/unit/partition, and set the default bios_drive, > interface, unit and partition > -cv boot with the defaults, then run UserConfig to modify > hardware parameters (c), and print verbose messages (v) > > more /boot.config > 1:sd(0,a)/kernel > > Hope this help -- Stephen Cooper Internet Engineer, Internet and Open Systems Group AlphaWest, Level 10, QV1 Building, 250 St Georges Tce, Perth, WA 6000 Main: (+61 8) 94296000 Fax: (+61 8) 94296030 --------------ms486A27AD3B89B3331107AB7E Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature; 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