From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 10 01:26:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA02470 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 01:26:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.112.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA02464 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 01:25:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id KAA27430; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 10:25:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199710100825.KAA27430@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: My NT,Win95 screwed up ???!!! In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19971008102347.00924c20@halaus.chistech.com> from Satish Kumar Ramaswamy at "Oct 8, 97 10:23:47 am" To: skr@chistech.com (Satish Kumar Ramaswamy) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 10:25:00 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I have 2 IDE drives... and a IDE CDROM. > > The first drive and the cd rom are connected to the first IDE connector > and the second drive is in the second IDE connector... > > I have win95 and winNt installed in the first drive.. (FAT partitions) > I installed FreeBSD in the second drive which is the secondary > master. > > When I installed FreeBSD with the boot easy boot manager... > I am not able to boot the Freebsd .. I get an error > panic: "unable to mount root" and goes to reboot. > I am not sure how to fix this... After the ``boot:'' prompt enter 1:wd(2,a)kernel The ``wd(2,a)'' tells the kernel to mount the root filesystem from the secondary master. To avoid entering the bootstring each time you boot you can use nextboot(8). Wolfgang