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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ARGH! Cant install FreeBSD!
Date: 11 Nov 1995 11:32:18 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <47jpep$kig@news1.radix.net>, Ken Bass <kbass@radix.net> wrote:
>I have been unable to install FreeBSD. I am a linux user and wanted
>to check out FreeBSD.
>
>My setup - 2 IDE drives and 1 SCSI.
>
>Drive 0 - IDE - DOS/Windows
>Drive 1 - IDE - Linux
>
>SCSI Drive - w/ Adaptec 2940.
The problem is that the FreeBSD bootblock only knows how to boot
off the first two BIOS disks
(or more IFF AND ONLY IF your BIOS supports booting of a 3rd drive)
unfortunatly even if you did have BIOS support for the 3rd disk
you will still need to boot with the -a argument, because
BIOS disk 3 is sd0, and the bootblock hasn't got any way of telling the
kernel that.. so you have to...
as a QUICK HACK try taking hte two IDE drives OUT OF THE BIOS
tables (from the BIOS config screen) FreeBSD will still
find them but the BIOS will find the scsi disk then as that's all there will
be..)
the configuration is becoming more common and we need to work out a way of
handling it better....
let me know what happens....
>
>I ran the install and everyting installed fine. But I cant boot the darn
>thing?
>
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