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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!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: INSTALLATION BLUES... Date: 22 Oct 1996 23:28:11 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <54jlab$k3o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <54ccgn$3fio$1@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E gibson1@ibm.net (Robert Gibson) wrote: > Now, how in the world do I get the > darned machine to recognize the non-bootable SCSI drive and boot > from it??? I have run Linux in the past, and have created a LILO > boot disk where I would simply pass the parameters "mount > aha152x=0x340,11,7,1" to LILO and it would then boot the system with > Linux on the SCSI drive. How can I do something similar with > FreeBSD??? Boot with -c, say ``v'' for ``visual config'', locate the `aic' driver, and adjust its parameters. However, a note of a warning: the `aic' driver is known to have some gotchas, and it's effectively unmaintained by now. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)