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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Install prob w/ 2.1R - cannot mount root on mixed IDE/SCSI
Date: 28 Jan 1996 23:38:55 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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Message-ID: <4eh1ef$9nn@times.tfs.com>
References: <4eggo7$cu@oscar.cc.gatech.edu>
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In article <4eggo7$cu@oscar.cc.gatech.edu>,
Carlos Ugarte <cau@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE, but am running into a
>problem late in the install phase. Or rather, when it first
>boots. The install itself actually seems to work well - I've
>used the "Novice install", and the minimal install (for now,
>at least until I can get it to work). After the install, and the
>reboot, FreeBSD starts to load. It seems the kernel is loading
>fine; it probes the devices and all that (no problem). When it
>gets to the part where it mounts the root filesystem, I get a
>panic, and a forced reboot.
I'm not sure if the '-a' option works on the bootblocks
if it does you shoulkd be able to use sd(2,a)/kernel and then use
sd0 when the kernel stops to ask about root disks..
with ONE IDE disk and an sd drive you could use the 'hd' option,
in the boot response but that won't work for two IDE drives.
what you COULD do to get yourself up and going would be to
disable (in the bios) your IDE drives, and use sd(0) as the
boot response
UNIX will still see the IDE drives but the BIOS won't
you'll need to enable them before OS@ and DOS will see them again though.
probably you should (once you are up) look at
/usr/src/sys/i386/bootblocks/biosboot/boot.c
(and it's friends and try figure out the correct parameters to pass to the
kernel as it's booting, compile them in by default
and reinstall that new bootblock..)
I know what I want to do to fix it and you MIGHT have given me the excuse..
I'll look at a fix this weekend.
julian
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