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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!news.prd.nomura.co.uk!news-server From: Steve Gailey <steveg@metrosol.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Issues with SCSI boot and PS/2 mouse Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 09:06:23 +0000 Organization: Metronome Solutions Ltd. Lines: 36 Message-ID: <32EC700F.25F8@metrosol.demon.co.uk> References: <01bc0a7a$73186e00$8caee1cc@bfa> NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.201.66.79 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34528 Brian F. Angus wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to automate my freeBSD boot process. > > I have 2 disks - 1 IDE and 1 SCSI. In order to boot freeBSD which is on > the > SCSI disk, I have to enter a special boot command (as per the instructions) > : > > 1:sd(0,a)kernel > > Is there a change in the sources (or any where else) that I can make to > avoid > typing this each time I boot the system. If I reboot the system the > initial load > of the kernel proceeds correctly, but the system halts when it officially > attempts > to mount the root partition. Due to this behavior, I cannot remotely > reboot my > system. I have exactly the same problem. I have modified the core in /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/ and have build new boot blocks, but I have not had any success making it work. If I use disklabel to put the new blocks on a floppy, It behaves just the same, but if I dd them on then the system hangs during boot1. I will try and figure out what I have done wrong some time this week, I will ley you know. Steve steveg@metrosol.demon.co.uk