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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: sd0 becomes sd1 at boot-time?
Date: 25 Jun 1997 09:41:43 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <33B07767.BF4862B3@ameritech.net>,
Chris Kunath <cjk@ameritech.net> writes:
> 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.
>
You need to say
Boot: 1:sd(0,a)/kernel
meaning boot from BIOS device 1, scsi device 0.
Look into the nextboot program to make this stick.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !