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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!agate!spool.mu.edu!torn!news.uunet.ca!not-for-mail From: Michael Wozniak <mwozniak@border.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: SCSI problem Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 11:22:48 -0500 Organization: Border Network Technologies Lines: 31 Message-ID: <32ECD658.41C67EA6@border.com> References: <5cft42$q5i@shiva.usa.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: elgreco.border.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) To: steve@nano.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5745 Steve Suhre wrote: > > I'm running BSD 2.0 and am having problems upgrading to SCSI. The install > works fine, but after loading the software on the drive, it won't boot > from the SCSI hard disk. I'm using a BusLogic 946C, and have tried 2 > different SCSI drives, an IBM and a Quantum. I've also tried it on > different PC's, with different settings, always the same result. The PC's > will boot from the old IDE drive, and the controller boots another SCSI > drive with BSD installed, just won't boot the new drives. > > Steve, I'm working on the same problem right now. I would guess that you're using biosboot and not ahaboot as your bootstrap loader. There are some problems with the older BusLogic SCSI BIOS and biosboot. The BT-946 works with the aha (Adaptec AHA-1540 etc) code in a compatability mode so select ahaboot when you install. Alternatively, if you start your PC from the IDE and have the SCSI installed, do the following (assuming your SCSI is sd0)... disklabel -W /dev/sd0a disklabel -r /dev/sd0a > /tmp/sdlabel disklabel -Rr /dev/sd0a /tmp/sdlabel /usr/bootstraps/ahaboot /usr/bootstraps/bootaha ...to fix the boot blocks. Enjoy! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael S. Wozniak, Systems Developer, Secure Computing Corporation e-mail: mwozniak@border.com, web: http://www.interlog.com/~mwozniak