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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!uniol!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!insl1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de!erb From: erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de (Olaf Erb) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: sd2/2 FreeBSD installation problem Date: 29 Sep 1996 10:01:50 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 21 Message-ID: <52lhee$rj5@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <51pdak$s1@ns1.win.net> <3244C4A3.ABD322C@freebsd.org> <52jo5g$8s@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de NNTP-Posting-Host: insl1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-No-Archive: Yes In article <52jo5g$8s@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >That's no longer The Only Truth. Modern SCSI hostadapters (and the >AHA-2842 likely belongs to this group) support BIOS mapping for more >than two drives, thus these drives can be used as boot devices as [..] >_However_, their ability to select another drive than ID 0 as a boot >drive _should not_ be used. This is meant to be a silly-DOS method I second this. We had some really esoterical effects using an AHA-2940 for booting from another disk than the first two. fsck always found errors that weren't there if booting from drive 0/1. It was really funny.. If you don't want to get into trouble don't use this facility with any *ix (I forgot to mention this happened with Linux, but FreeBSD should be no diff). Olaf -- There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. -- Richard Bach, Illusions