Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:29:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Cornejo <dave@dogwood.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: odd booting problem Message-ID: <199704170029.RAA07125@white.dogwood.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970416171551.12317M-100000@localhost> from Doug White at "Apr 16, 97 05:16:34 pm"
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Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Dave Cornejo wrote: > > > The system is running 2.2-STABLE (RELENG_2_2 tag from April 11) > > > > I was moving my system from an IDE drive to a SCSI drive. I dumped > > the IDE drive and moved everything over to the SCSI. I removed the > > IDE drive from the system and rebooted - the kernel boots except that > > the bootstrap (?) code claims it's booting "0:wd0(0,a)kernel" > > (something like that at least). When it goes to mount the root device > > it hangs. If I put the IDE drive back it seems to boot off the SCSI > > drive but mounts the IDE drive. > > > > Does anyone have any helpful clues on how to get it to boot entirely > > off the SCSI drives? > > Did you disable the IDE controller on the motherboard? Even tho it doesn't > have anything connected to it, it can cause odd booting problems. > > BTW, you can boot up by typing sd(0,a)/kernel and it will mount fine. I got this solved :-) Turns out I had managed to create a disk label without a type in it. Booting sd(0,a)/kernel won't get around this, compiling a kernel that boots only from sd0 won't solve this. See README.386BSD in /sys/i386/boot/biosboot -- Dave Cornejo - Dogwood Media, Fremont, California
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