From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 22 17:27:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14961 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:27:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA14855 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:27:39 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA01545; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:27:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:27:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Dr. Reiner Kallenborn" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting In-Reply-To: <353DF297.151C045B@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Dr. Reiner Kallenborn wrote: > I have a problem booting freebsd from my secondary master HDD (wd2). > When I get the boot prompt (boot:) I have to write 1:wd(2,a)kernel to > boot properly. > When I try to boot without writing this stuff, > the message is that the kernel is booted at wd(1,a) but the the root > directory is not found (which is at wd2s1) > > The following did not help: kernel compilation > with config root on wd2 > using boot.config > with the line 1:wd(2,a)kernel > > Does anyone have an idea how to fix this Try rebuilding your kernel and remove the entry for wd1. (not for wdc1, obviously) You must have found part one of my boilerplace :) Here is part two: 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). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message