Eric d'Alibut wrote: > i installed obsd4.5 on a box housing one scsi drive and one IDE drive. > Another unixen is on the IDE. > > The install offered me the choice of sd0 or hd0, so I chose sd0.
that's not what it said... would have been "sd0" or "wd0". (ok, I'm being picky, but it might help with the understanding!) > When I reboot the machine using the boot floppy (floppy45.fs) I cannot > boot the scsi drive. This: > >> boot sd0a:/bsd > > and many variations thereof, does not work. > > How can I point the boot floppy at the scsi drive? The error is > "Invalid argument failed(22), will try /bsd." right. "sd0", "wd0" are all OpenBSD things. At the boot> prompt, you are not running OpenBSD yet...so everything is a BIOS device, not an IDE(like) or SCSI(like) device, the boot loader calls 'em "hd0", "hd1", etc. If you look early on at the boot messages, you probably see something like: disk: fd0 hd0*+ hd1+ those are the list of disks that your BIOS sees. In the above case, hd0 is marked with an "*" indicating that it does NOT have a disklabel so it is probably not your disk you are after, in this case, hd1 would be. So, you would probably want "boot hd1a:/bsd". Note: IF your SCSI disk is attached to something with no boot ROM (like some Sun cards), or an invalid boot ROM (like a Mac SCSI card in a PC), or a disabled boot ROM, this won't work, as there will be no BIOS support for your system, and thus no way to boot OpenBSD to get OpenBSD's support for your system. Nick.
