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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!ais.net!ameritech.net!chi.ameritech.net!not-for-mail From: Chris Kunath <cjk@ameritech.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: sd0 becomes sd1 at boot-time? Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 20:41:59 -0500 Organization: Ameritech Interactive Media Services, Inc. Lines: 33 Message-ID: <33B07767.BF4862B3@ameritech.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyn-max5-22.chicago.il.ameritech.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; U) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43445 Howdy all, Am having a problem installing 2.2.2 on a system with: DFI G586VPS-Pro (75Mhz Lynx chipset) mboard Cyrix P200+ cpu 64M EDO RAM 60ns on mboard's onboard PCI0646 IDE xtlr: one IBM 3.24G ATA-2 IDE drive on NEC SmartSCSI (Adaptec 2930 [OEM 2940]) PCI SCSI xtlr: ID0: Quantum 3G Fireball SCSI drive ID6: Plextor 12x SCSI CD-ROM drive The new FreeBSD 2.2.2 installs fine to a 500M partition at the end of the SCSI ID 0 drive. However, when I try to boot from the partition, it starts to load the OS, but fails trying to mount the root partition. The weird thing is, it tries to mount sd1a. There isn't an sd1 drive. When I disable the onboard IDE controller, it boots from the sd0a partition just fine, so it seems to be dynamically deciding it needs to boot from another drive only if the potentially evil onboard PCI0646 IDE controller is in action. If the IDE controller is enabled, I can't boot from floppy and redirect the boot to either sd0a or sd1a. I recall reading something about problems with earlier revisions of the PCI06xx series of IDE controllers. This particular system hasn't had any problems as an all-SCSI box, but I guess it has some problems now. Is there a way I could boot from the CD-ROM [sd(6,a)kernel doesn't work], or does the El Torito stuff only apply to IDE CD-ROM? Any other clues, or should I just get another board (have already ordered a generic Symbios -875 SCSI controller, will see if that helps)?