any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Jan 12 22:29:00 UTC 2007


On Friday 12 January 2007 16:12, Jo Rhett wrote:
> 
> On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:12 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> >> Like I mentioned before, lsdev only showed me a single drive.
> >
> > Then the 3ware BIOS doesn't let the boot software see your second  
> > drive,
> > so there's no way to load /boot/loader off that drive since boot2 and
> > the loader both rely on the BIOS to talk to drives.  End of story.
> 
> Okay, that's what I suspected.  So booting from CD and using "lsdev"  
> at the loader prompt really is the best/only way to confirm what the  
> BIOS provides?

Yep, aside from any details the BIOS may choose to share with you via
POST messages. :-/

-- 
John Baldwin


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