Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 21:35:28 -0800 From: Tanvir Hassan <tanvir@mail.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: FreeBSD Install problems with SCSI Jaz...] Message-ID: <34BC4EA0.4BE50DBB@mail.org> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112210227.22079x-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Unfortunately this did not work. I have an aha-2940 with 1 4Gb USCSI disk and the Jaz disk. The USCSI disk shows up first in the probe (as d:) and then the Jaz disk shows up (it does not have any letter bound to it). When I used the booteasy program I installed it on my IDE boot drive and it only showed F1: dos and F5: 2nd disk. It never showed the Jaz. I told my controller to make the Jaz bootable and even that did not work. It seems freebsd is having problems booting off my 3rd disk. When I type sd(1,a)/kernel it just says it could not find it. Linux was ALOT easier to install. Is there any real difference between FreeBSD and Linux? I have Linux installed and running and now that FreeBSD is having so many problems, I am inclined to just give up on it. Also, I could not see my modem in the install because it is plug and play. Linux has this simple utility called pnpisa to grab pnp data and configure devices so that non PNP OS'es like Linux can deal with them. Apparently PNP capability is going to be in the kernel RSN. Does FreeBSD have this capability? Or even if I ever do get FreeBSD to see my Jaz will I not be able to use PNP devices? Thanks! Doug White wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Tanvir Hassan wrote: > > Yipe! Pine ate the message body. > > You should be able to point at your Jaz disk by typing > > sd(1,a)/kernel > > At any Boot: prompt (assuming your Jaz is the second SCSI disk probed). > It may take a while to figure out exactly what device the bootblocks > think the Jaz really is. I assume that we don't need to teach the Adaptec > that the Jaz is a bootable disk. > > I didn't try this when I had the Zip; I guess I should have. :-/ > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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