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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 11:24:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: neil <nquigg@tpgi.com.au>
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Subject: Re: freebsd boot problems
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On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, neil wrote:

> I am having a major problem trying to boot BSD.
> My system (pentium 166) has a second hard drive installed as master on
> the secondary IDE.
> Using a boot floppy and CD I am able to configure and install FreeBSD
> 2.2.5 onto a 2G partition on this drive and also install the boot
> loader.
> When the system starts up it recognizes both wd0 and wd2 however the
> boot command looks for wd1 by default and when I try boot: wd(2,a) the
> message unable to find wd(2,a) is returned.
> I am rather confused as the system seems to install without any
> difficulty.

The classic `can't mount root'. 

 If you get the message:
panic: Cannot mount root

At the end of the probe sequence you should either:
1. Have the line:
config kernel root on wd2

in your kernel config,
OR:

2. Rename the second disk to wd1 in the kernel config (comment out the 
original wd1 line and change the wd2 line to read wd1, leaving all other 
parameters unchanged).

You may need to move your disk.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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