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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.bright.net!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.iguide.com!news.delphi.com!BIX.com!arog From: arog@BIX.com (arog on BIX) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to boot off sd1? Date: 2 Mar 96 13:34:14 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation Lines: 75 Message-ID: <arog.825773654@BIX.com> References: <RS.96Mar1224704@purple.IN-Ulm.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: bix.com rs@purple.IN-Ulm.DE (Ralph Schleicher) writes: Ralph, Set your CMOS configuration to have NO MFM/RLL/IDE drives configured. You may need to run "pfdisk 0" and "pfdisk 1" first so that those drives are "labeled" in a way that FreBSD can understand. Once booted to FreeBSD, my experience is that they will be there and mountable with 'mound_msdos". You may need to run /dev/MAKEDEV to get things setup and such... but look at /dev/MAKEDEV with vi first for a better understanding of what is going to happen FIRST. Alan Ogden arog@BIX.com >Sorry if this is a FAQ but I cannot find an answer to my question in >the `INSTALL.TXT' and `HARDWARE.TXT' file of my FreeBSD 2.1 CDROM. >Installing FreeBSD itself works fine but I cannot boot off my second >SCSI drive. Here are my disks: > wd0: Quantum LPS 240AT, OS/2 2.0 > sd0: IBM DPES-31080, Linux 1.2.13 > sd1: IBM DPES-31080, FreeBSD 2.1 >I've installed the user distribution accepting the default partitions >(32 MB root, 75 MB swap, rest for /usr -- I plan to put /home and /var >on sd0 iff FreeBSD is willing to boot). >The FreeBSD boot manager is loaded by lilo (the Linux loader) with the >following entry in `/etc/lilo.conf': > other = /dev/sdb1 > label = FreeBSD > loader = /boot/chain.b > table = /dev/sdb >Up to here everything works as expected but if I enter > sd(1,a)/kernel -c >or sd(1,a)/kernel >at the FreeBSD boot prompt (as described in `HARDWARE.TXT'), I'll be >poped into an endless loop with the error message > Bad disklabelCan't find kernel >On the other hand FreeBSD starts booting with > sd(2,a)/kernel > hd(1,a)/kernel > hd(2,a)/kernel >but then it fails with > change root device to sd0a # or `sd2a' with sd(2,a)/kernel > panic: cannot mount root >I've tried this procedure with both, the `booteasy' and the `standard' >MBR and I really have to say that I don't know how to go on (except for >getting a screw driver from my toolbox physically unmounting all other >disks). Any hint would be appreciated. >BTW: Yes, I've disabled all 0x300 probes except for the ep0 driver >required for my 3c509 card. >-- >Ralph