From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 13 18:45:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA20049 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:45:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.186.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA20043 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:45:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA03614; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:45:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:45:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: z_keithd@TITAN.SFASU.EDU cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting problems and mounting root In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 z_keithd@TITAN.SFASU.EDU wrote: > Ok...figuring that the only way I get get to dual-boot between windows 95 > and FreeBSD was to have the HD with win95 as the first of the two. So..I > swapped them, making wd0 now win95 and wd2 now FreeBSD. > > Everythings cool and it boots, EXCEPT for the fact that now it can't find > the root filesystem to mount. Here's my partition scheme on the now wd2 > > / wd2s1a > swap wd2s1b > /usr wd2s1e (i think) > /var wd2s1f (i think) > > Anyways, if someone knows what to pass at the Boot: prompt I'd be > grateful! I've had no luck. THanks type wd(2,a)/kernel to get started. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo