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Date:      Mon, 14 Apr 1997 08:14:47 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
To:        ahill@connect.com.au (Anthony Hill)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can boot 2.2.1-R
Message-ID:  <199704140614.IAA13442@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970414085506.22207A-100000@indi.off.connect.com.au> from Anthony Hill at "Apr 14, 97 09:43:21 am"

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Hi,

> 
> I tryed a ftp install of 2.2.1-R this weekend, but could not get it to bood.
> It seems to boot all the way through with no horrible problems, but then 
> fails to mount root.
> 
> I think it may be a harddisk detection/geometry problem.
> 
> The motherboard is a triton3 with 2 built in IDE controllers, 
> The harddisks are 2 425.3 MB Western Digital caviars. (model wdac2420-00F)
> 
> I have Win95 on the first disk and am booting FreeBSD off the second using 
> osbs.
> 
> Some of the disk related boot messages I get are:-
> 
> wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 IRQ 14 on ISA
> wdc0 unit 0 (wd0): <wdc ac2420f>
> wd0  405 MB (830760 sectors), 989 clys, 15 heads, 56 st, 512 b/s
> wd1  size unknown unsing fake values
> wd1 0MB (17 secors), 1 cyls, 1 heads, 17 st, 512 b/s
> .
> .
> .
> wd1c hard error reading fsbn 829810
> .
> .
> .
> wd1  cannot find bad sector table (bad sector table i/o error)
> wd1s1 cannot find bad sector table (bad sector table i/o error)
> panic cannot mount root
> 

The disk wd1 is the slave on the primary IDE controller.
Try putting your FreeBSD disk as master on the secondary IDE controller.

At the Boot: prompt enter
	wd(2,a)/kernel
and see what happens.

hope this helps

Wolfgang



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