any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

Jo Rhett jrhett at svcolo.com
Mon Jan 22 19:40:12 UTC 2007


On Jan 21, 2007, at 1:40 AM, Steve Watt wrote:

> In <45A7B081.6040504 at svcolo.com>, jrhett at svcolo.com wrote:
>> Václav Haisman wrote:
>>> What does lsdev or whatever it was say? Does it show any devices  
>>> besides
>>> the raw disks?
>>
>> So I booted from CD and ran lsdev, and showed something like this  
>> (from
>> memory)
>>
>> 0: Drive A
>> 2: Disk 0
>>     1: FFS
>
> You need to get into your SCSI BIOS (don't know what the key
> sequence is for 3ware, it's ^A for Adaptec) at the correct time
> and enable the disk for booting.  As shown here, there's no chance
> of it being bootable.

Thanks, but I didn't need any help with the SCSI BIOS.  The question  
was only how to determine what devices are visible to FreeBSD.   
Apparently 3ware only shows a single LUN to the BIOS, even when it  
shows multiple LUNs to the booted system.

-- 
Jo Rhett
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