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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!peer-news.britain.eu.net!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!telepost.no!bilbo.merkantildata.com!iehpc.ihosteng.priv.no!usenet From: Ivarh@ihosteng.priv.no (Ivar Høsteng) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting from primary disk on secondary PCI IDE controller Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 19:41:05 GMT Organization: Ivar Hosteng, 0477 OSLO, Norway Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4c44u7$5nh@iehpc.ihosteng.priv.no> References: <4c1avr$73@daneel.sds.no> <4c30sb$p1l@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ivarhpc.ihosteng.priv.no X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >toreh@bootes.sds.no (Tore haraldsen) writes: >Variants with `holes' in the IDE drive assignment aren't fully >supported. There are too many variations. :-( (In particular, >if you are also thinking about an additional SCSI controller.) You meen like my setup? (1 IDE, 1 Adaptec 2940, 1 Adaptec 3940). The problems I have is that while the IDE controller is enabled the kernel tries to mount the wrong disk as the root fs. I am booting FreeBSD V2.1 from my second SCSI disk. When the IDE controller is enables the kernel tries to mount the /dev/sd2a instead of /dev/sd1a as the root fs. Why not make the kernel figure out what device it is beeing booted from and use it as the root fs instead of trying to guess where it is? Cheers, Ivar E. Høsteng email: ivarh@ihosteng.priv.no