Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 20:25:46 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Booting SCSI first over IDE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970407201547.1809A-100000@zeus.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <9704071250.AA17006@pineal.math.FAU.EDU>
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This thing has been passed around so many times I don't know who the
original poster was.
On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Gabi Hannawi wrote:
> > > > I have an AHA2940 with a Seagate SCSI drive and a Seagate IDE drive. When
> > > > I enable the IDE drive in the BIOS, (after BS-OS to boot off the SCSI)
> > > > the kernel panics because it can't mount / on sd1. Fair enough recompile
> > > > the kernel to mount root on sd1 and it fails again. Vexing.
cd /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot
{your favorite editor here} Makefile (edit and uncomment the following
line after reading and understanding the comments above and below it)
#CFLAGS+= -DBOOT_HD_BIAS=1
make all install
disklabel -B sd0
reboot
move on to bigger and better things. :)
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