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From: jeongl@comtch.iea.com (Jeong Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Booting FreeBSD from 3rd HD
Date: 6 Dec 1994 18:25:57 GMT
Organization: CompuTech, Spokane WA
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I've got a slight problem with FreeBSD 2.0R and it's that it doesn't like
to boot from a 3rd HD. Here is my setup:
P-90 System w/ 32MB RAM
1 WD 540MB IDE HD
2 SCSI HD's controlled by a NCR53c825 based SCSI card
The only way I was able to boot off of the 3rd HD (2nd SCSI drive) was to
disable the IDE HD in CMOS and type in 'sd(1,a)/kernel' at the Boot
prompt. I've tried 'hd(2,a)/kernel' and 'sd(2,a)/kernel' with all three
drive enabled and I am able to boot up the kernel; however, as soon as it
tries to mount the root directory it will either look for the /dev/wd0a
or /dev/sd2a partition, respectively, and it will reboot because FreeBSD
is not on either of those drives.
For some reason 'sd(1,a)/kernel' doesn't seem to work when all three
drives are enabled. My guess, is that it is looking at the 2nd drive
which is the 1st SCSI HD.
Please reply if you have any suggestions of fixes.
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