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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-ulm.de!happy.informatik.uni-ulm.de!donau.in-ulm.de!news!rs From: rs@purple.IN-Ulm.DE (Ralph Schleicher) Subject: How to boot off sd1? Sender: news@purple.IN-Ulm.DE (Usenet News) Organization: Private site Lines: 52 Message-ID: <RS.96Mar1224704@purple.IN-Ulm.DE> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: alpha.purple.in-ulm.de Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 21:47:04 GMT 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