Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 14:25:04 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: FreeBSD SCSI list <freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Are Bryne <are.bryne@communique.no> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD off SCSI w/o SCSI bios Message-ID: <19980307142504.56324@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980201182109.1539A-100000@rune.communique.no>; from Are Bryne on Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 06:11:14PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980201182109.1539A-100000@rune.communique.no>
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As Are Bryne wrote: > I've looked at several bootloaders: BootEasy, BS-OS, and (a little at) > GRUB. It seems they all need a SCSI bios to find the scsi disk. Sure, and btw., it's not only the boot selector. The FreeBSD bootblocks itself also rely on the BIOS accessibility of the disk. So there's really no chance to load a kernel off a SCSI disk where the host adaptor has no BIOS. Your only chance is booting off a floppy. Configure your kernel so it has the root f/s on sd0, and boot it with the `-r' option from the floppy (so it doesn't adjust the root filesystem to fd0). Remember, you can put this -r into /boot.config on the floppy. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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