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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.alt.net!news1.alt.net!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multiple 2940 host adapters on 2.1.5 Date: 25 Sep 1996 06:17:58 -0700 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 39 Message-ID: <52bbe6$353@itchy.serv.net> References: <52ba78$2jk@itchy.serv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net In article <52ba78$2jk@itchy.serv.net>, Sean T. Lamont <zeno@serv.net> wrote: <.some stuff about multiple host adapter problems> Of course, the problem hits me after I post the message, but I'm still not sure as to the solution. the problem: Controller 0 has boot disk Controller 1 has auxilliary disk BIOS wants to boot off of controller 0. Kernel comes up, decides to assign controller 1 as ahc0 and controller 0 as ahc1. As such, it tries to mount the first disk on controller 1 as sd0, and of course fails. If the controllers are reversed, the problem is similar. ahc0 and ahc1 would presumably be assigned correctly, but there's no boot loader or kernel on the auxilliary disk, so the BIOS boot fails. Does anyone have a reasonable solution to this? Since there's only a single kernel config line for ahc0, I'm not sure how to make the disks install in the correct order. -- Sean T. Lamont, President / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson