Call me stupid and beat me with that cluebat until it's in little pieces! I finally realized that I caused all my problems by assuming the drive order during install. I am now installing again and before initializing the drives, dropped to the shell and confirmed the drive order. The SATA drive is wd0 and bios drives 80 and 81 are wd1 and wd2. So now I'll be booting from the 30G drive instead of trying to boot from the 300G drive.
I'm pretty sure this will resolve the problems I have been dealing with, and will follow up here with status when the install completes Bruce On 6/18/07, Bruce Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, the loader actually looks at hd0 and the system was able to boot with a modified fstab, but then disklabel shows info for incorrect drives and I am not able to mount the new drive. I will try boot -c and your suggestions and let you know what happens On 6/18/07, Marco S Hyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Bruce Bauer" writes: > > You nailed it down! > > After boot>-s, examining the dmesg shows the SATA drive is wd0 and the > > former wd0 is wd1 and the former wd1 is wd2. Now if my thinking is > > correct, all I should have to do is edit fstab to reflect the changed > > drive positions and the system should be happy. > > If the loader is looking to wd0 for the kernel changing the fstab > will do nothing. I have a custom kernel to set the sata as wd0 > > # IDE hard drives > wd1 at pciide? flags 0x0000 > wd0 at pciide? flags 0x0000 > wd* at pciide? flags 0x0000 > > but you can do the same thing with a GENERIC kernel by playing with > config -e or boot -c > > neko[GENERIC]$ config -e bsd > OpenBSD 4.1-current (GENERIC) #34: Sun May 27 15:11:12 PDT 2007 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC > warning: no output file specified > Enter 'help' for information > ukc> find wd > 42 wd* at wdc*|pciide* channel -1 flags 0x0 > ukc> add wd1 > Clone Device (DevNo, 'q' or '?') ? 42 > Insert before Device (DevNo, 'q' or '?') ? 42 > 42 wd1 at wdc*|pciide* channel -1 flags 0x0 > ukc> add wd0 > Clone Device (DevNo, 'q' or '?') ? 43 > Insert before Device (DevNo, 'q' or '?') ? 43 > 43 wd0 at wdc*|pciide* channel -1 flags 0x0 > ukc> find wd > 42 wd1 at wdc*|pciide* channel -1 flags 0x0 > 43 wd0 at wdc*|pciide* channel -1 flags 0x0 > 44 wd* at wdc*|pciide* channel -1 flags 0x0 > ukc> > > // marc
