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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can't boot new FBSD install...:-(
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 06:44:51 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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Jack wrote:
> 
> Recently I aquired a fujitsu m2694- a rather oldish (94) 1 gig scsi2
> drive. So, I thought, "Hey! What a great day! Now I can devote an entire
> hard drive to 95, and another to FreeBSD rather than messing around,
> guessing partition size." As it turns out, I have OSR2 w/ Fat32 on my
> 1.6 gig Maxtor (IDE), and FreeBSD 2.2.2. sort of installed on the
> Fujitsu. Well, it is installed, I just can't boot to it! My scsi
> controller is an Adaptec 1535 (the 1540 w/o the bios, essentially). Here

That's your problem.  Without a BIOS, your Adaptec can't run the usual
initialization code which patches the bios drive table to allow the SCSI
drive to be a booted from.  You can put things like your /usr and your
/var and whatnot onto this SCSI drive, but you can't boot from it -
you'll still require some space on the IDE drive for at least your root
partition.

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.