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From: Daniel Eriksson <eradaer@gaera.ericsson.se>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Boot-problems
Date: 6 Dec 1995 17:43:31 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Radio Systems
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I have a P90 (Intel Zappa MB) with one IDE-drive connected to the
built-in interface and 4 SCSI-devices on an Adaptec 2940 (2*HD,
CD and DAT). The IDE-drive (wd0) is currently dedicated to DOS, and
FreeBSD 2.1R is installed on the two SCSI-disks (sd0 and sd1).

At first I had both sd0 and sd1 configured as dangerously dedicated,
but I couldn't get the bootmanager to boot FreeBSD for me so I
reinstalled, this time with the dangerously dedicated mode switched
off. However, I still can't get the bootmanager to boot FreeBSD
for me. Currently it doesn't even see the FreeBSD-disks. I guess
this is what happens if neither of the SCSI-disks are active
(bootable), but I'm absolutely sure that I marked sd0 as bootable
when I last installed.

I currently boot from floppy (with hd(1,a)/kernel), but that's
not exactly fun! :-(

Any clues? Thanks in advance!

-- 
Daniel Eriksson, daniel@icon.pp.se