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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!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!news.prd.nomura.co.uk!news-server From: Steve Gailey <steveg@metrosol.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Installing on IDE/SCSI system Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 08:48:46 +0000 Organization: Metronome Solutions Ltd. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <329022EE.6CB2@metrosol.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.201.66.79 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) Dear FreeBSD People, I am just getting around to installing 2.1.5 as 2.1.6 arrives, typical. I have done the installation on and Intel GX Workstation which has an internal IDE drive running DOS/Windows and an external SCSI disk connected to the AIC-6360 SCSI controller on the motherboard. The installation went fine, and my plan was to boot this system from floppy when I want the FreeBSD. I had a similar arrangement with 2.0 and it worked just fine. The problem is that I either can't boot or I can't mount '/'. I get a message saying that the hd contoller isn't known and of course the sd controller will boot, but then gets confused when it comes to mounting the root partition. I have tried disabling the IDE contoller and the FreeBSD boots just fine. This however would be a complete pain as it is an EISA machine and I am sick of EISA config not assured type messages. HAs the support for booting a SCIS disk from floppy changed recently, or am I forgetting something? Thanks in advance. Steve