Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:21:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Sridhar Krishnan <skrishna@cisco.com> To: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, support@cdrom.com, kopti@seas.gwu.edu Subject: Re: Boot Manager/ BSD on second disk (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960626081419.2756B-100000@lint.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <199606252315.XAA02927@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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Typing wd(1,a)/kernel worked for booting from a floppy, when the system is on the second drive. Thanks !!! If I set my BIOS to boot from the second drive, the system thinks that the system is on wd(0,a), however when the time comes to mount it is actually wd(1,a). I think the kernel gets confused because it assigns the first boot device as drive 0. I do not have enough expertise or the courage to modify boot.c and do a 'disklabel'. Appreciate your help. On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, James Raynard wrote: > >>>>> Sridhar Krishnan <skrishna@cisco.com> writes: > > > > This is in response to my earlier posting re: booting FreeBSD off the > > second hard disk. > > > > I have not recvd. much any solutions thus far. > > The solution I used: > > Insert install floppy in drive. At the boot prompt, type > > hd(1,a)/kernel > > This was to boot FreeBSD off a SCSI disk when an IDE disk was > present. If you have two IDE disks, wd(1,a)/kernel, or for SCSI > sd(1,a)/kernel should do the job (I think). > > As I remember, there was a bug in the 2.1.0-RELEASE install program > which caused problems when installing FreeBSD to the second disk. > > -- > James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland > james@jraynard.demon.co.uk >
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