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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: INSTALLATION BLUES...
Date: 22 Oct 1996 23:28:11 GMT
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gibson1@ibm.net (Robert Gibson) wrote:

> Now, how in the world do I get the
> darned machine to recognize the non-bootable SCSI drive and boot
> from it???  I have run Linux in the past, and have created a LILO
> boot disk where I would simply pass the parameters "mount
> aha152x=0x340,11,7,1" to LILO and it would then boot the system with
> Linux on the SCSI drive.  How can I do something similar with
> FreeBSD???

Boot with -c, say ``v'' for ``visual config'', locate the `aic'
driver, and adjust its parameters.  However, a note of a warning: the
`aic' driver is known to have some gotchas, and it's effectively
unmaintained by now.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)