Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 09:27:25 -0500 From: Ted Spradley <tsprad@mail.metronet.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: BootMgr can't find second IDE disk correctly Message-ID: <199705041427.JAA09338@perseverance.sands.com>
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I got my long-awaited 2.2 Release CD-ROM and installed it on my desk at work. Since I needed more space, and to avoid any (tiny) risk of leaving the machine down, I got a second IDE disk and installed onto that, leaving the running system (the 8/1/96 Snapshot) untouched. The installation went flawlessly (great work), but when it was all finished and tried to reboot it was unable to mount the root file system, and paniced. This is a generic Pentium 120MHz with two IDE controllers on the motherboard. On the primary IDE controller are an 800Mbyte disk and a CD-ROM drive. I added a second 800Mbyte disk onto the second IDE controller. The first drive is half WinNT-3.51 :-( and half FreeBSD, the second drive is all FreeBSD. At reset, the boot manager offers: F1 DOS F2 BSD F5 other disk So I pick F5, and I get another list with only one choice: F1 BSD This boots wd(1,a)/kernel. It runs along fine until time to mount /, can't find wd1a and panics. If I type in "1:wd(2,a)/kernel" it boots the same kernel and successfully mounts wd2a as /. The bootmanager calls the second drive wd1 but everything else calls it wd2. But the bootmanager also recognizes wd2 as the same as wd1. Is there any way I can get this to reboot unattended? I know, the best way is to swap the cables between the two drives. When I do that, what do I need to fix besides /etc/fstab ? Thanks! Ted Spradley <A HREF="mailto:tsprad@metronet.com">tsprad@metronet.com </A> +1-972-484-5356 Brisco: "...the more I learn the less I know." Bowler: "At the rate we're learning things we won't know nothing in no time."
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