Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-22 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jan 21, 2007, at 1:40 AM, Steve Watt wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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)

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-21 Thread Steve Watt
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
Steve Watt wrote: You need to get into your SCSI BIOS (don't know what the key sequence is for 3ware, it's ^A for Adaptec) Alt-F3 funnily enough... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-21 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sun, January 21, 2007 8:47 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: Steve Watt wrote: You need to get into your SCSI BIOS (don't know what the key sequence is for 3ware, it's ^A for Adaptec) Alt-F3 funnily enough... It's ALT+3 for all our 3Ware Escalade cards (PATA/SATA). Freddie Cash [EMAIL

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-12 Thread Jo Rhett
Suleiman Souhlal wrote: Jo Rhett wrote: So I've been searching for hours now, and it appears that short of reading the C code, there's no documentation of the boot2 menu prompt. Sure, it says drive:driver(unit,slice,part) But no combination of those three that I can find actually works.

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Jo Rhett wrote: I'd like to add to this that the handbook is riddled full of undocumented terms, like BIOS Drive #. How do you determine this for a SCSI drive? Depends on your controller. If it doesn't register a drive with BIOS, you don't get to access it like that.

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-12 Thread Václav Haisman
Jo Rhett wrote: So I've been searching for hours now, and it appears that short of reading the C code, there's no documentation of the boot2 menu prompt. Sure, it says drive:driver(unit,slice,part) But no combination of those three that I can find actually works. There's two LUNs:

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-12 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 11 January 2007 23:55, Jo Rhett wrote: On Jan 11, 2007, at 8:50 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: So I've been searching for hours now, and it appears that short of reading the C code, there's no documentation of the boot2 menu prompt. I'd like to add to this that the handbook is riddled

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-12 Thread Jo Rhett
John Baldwin wrote: A BIOS driver number is the number you pass to the BIOS to access a drive. Typically drive 0x0 is a floppy drive and hard drives start at 0x80. Usually the SCSI BIOS will list the BIOS driver number during the POST messages and it will look like 80, 81, etc. There is no

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-12 Thread Jo Rhett
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 -- Jo Rhett senior geek Silicon Valley Colocation

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-12 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 12 January 2007 10:56, Jo Rhett wrote: John Baldwin wrote: A BIOS driver number is the number you pass to the BIOS to access a drive. Typically drive 0x0 is a floppy drive and hard drives start at 0x80. Usually the SCSI BIOS will list the BIOS driver number during the POST

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-12 Thread Jo Rhett
Okay, let me make this really clear. My BIOS doesn't tell me which drive is which, and the BIOS of the 3ware card doesn't tell me what number the drive is going to be labeled either. I need some command I can run from the freebsd CD to tell me what freebsd observes. Like I mentioned

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-12 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 12 January 2007 12:37, Jo Rhett wrote: Okay, let me make this really clear. My BIOS doesn't tell me which drive is which, and the BIOS of the 3ware card doesn't tell me what number the drive is going to be labeled either. I need some command I can run from the freebsd CD to

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-12 Thread Jo Rhett
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

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-12 Thread John Baldwin
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

any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-11 Thread Jo Rhett
So I've been searching for hours now, and it appears that short of reading the C code, there's no documentation of the boot2 menu prompt. Sure, it says drive:driver(unit,slice,part) But no combination of those three that I can find actually works. There's two LUNs: drive 0: single 2TB

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-11 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jan 11, 2007, at 8:50 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: So I've been searching for hours now, and it appears that short of reading the C code, there's no documentation of the boot2 menu prompt. I'd like to add to this that the handbook is riddled full of undocumented terms, like BIOS Drive #. How do

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-11 Thread Suleiman Souhlal
Jo Rhett wrote: So I've been searching for hours now, and it appears that short of reading the C code, there's no documentation of the boot2 menu prompt. Sure, it says drive:driver(unit,slice,part) But no combination of those three that I can find actually works. There's two LUNs: drive