(forgive me if I just accidentally mailed a copy of this message to the 
list with no content - I think I did)

Problem solved. Just in case I wasn't the only one on this mailing list
naieve enough to have this misunderstanding, let me explain why my MacBSD
machine "suddenly and arbitrarily" failed to boot and wouldn't let me get
to my disk...

I used to have three SCSI disks, an internal (ID 0), and two externals, 
(ID 1 & 2 respectively). #2 was my MacBSD disk. I removed drive 1 (id1) from 
the chain - that was the key. Apparently, with the exception of the 
booter MacBSD pays no attention to SCSI ID. From what people have told 
me, it starts finding drives at the "near end" of the SCSI chain, and 
labels them sd0, sd1, etc in the order that it finds them, regardless of 
SCSI ID.

So, when you move a drive, you have to change your fstab to indicate the 
new device name.

-1LT Avram Dorfman
HQ USAF Network Management
permanent email address: avram@pobox.com

"Methodological observation of the sociometrical behavior tendencies of 
prematurated isolates indicates that a causal relationship exists between 
groundward tropism and lachrimatory behavior forms."

On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Lt Avram Dorfman wrote:

> I don't know what I did - everything was working fine. Then I played with 
> the install utility. I don't think I did anything except try to mount my 
> /u1 partition while I was there.
> 
> Now it stops during boot, and complains that it can't do an fsck. Wheh i 
> try to do it manually, it says "Can't open /dev/rsd2a: Device Not 
> configured" It says the same for /dev/rsd2g.
> 
> The thing is, /dev/rsd2g seems to actually be mounted at the moment, but 
> it's called "root_device" instead of /dev/rsd2a.
> 
> I've been reading man pages, and I'm blue in the face. I still don't know 
> what it means by "device not configured" or how to fix it! HELP!
> 
> -1LT Avram Dorfman
> HQ USAF Network Management
> permanent email address: avram@pobox.com
> 
> "Methodological observation of the sociometrical behavior tendencies of 
> prematurated isolates indicates that a causal relationship exists between 
> groundward tropism and lachrimatory behavior forms."
> 
> On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, jeff schindall wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Does anyone know if the Radius Rocket card will work with MacBSD?
> > 
> > 
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