From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 25 07:59:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA27832 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 May 1996 07:59:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kalypso.iqm.unicamp.br ([143.106.13.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA27821 for ; Sat, 25 May 1996 07:58:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from vazquez@localhost) by kalypso.iqm.unicamp.br (8.7.5/8.6.12/FreeBSD2.1) id LAA03184 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 May 1996 11:55:57 GMT From: Pedro A M Vazquez Message-Id: <199605251155.LAA03184@kalypso.iqm.unicamp.br> Subject: Booting from wdc2 To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 11:55:57 +0000 () X-Organization: Instituto de Quimica - Unicamp X-URL: http://www.iqm.unicamp.br/ X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello A friend of mine has an IBM 350 P75 computer with the following setup wdc0: wd0 (IBM DALA 540M) HPFS OS2/warp atapi CD wdc1: wd2 (NEC 1.6G) 600M FBSD partition , 1G HPFS partition The instalation went as smooth as possible, using the atapi.flp the IDE CD was recognized and used to install FBSD on wdc1, the boot selector is working really fine but it is impossible to complete the boot because the boot program tries to mount the root partition on wd(1,a) instead of wd(2,a) and panices. What would be the easiest way to solve this problem, my friend is not a computer hacker and don't wants to move things (exchange the ide CD with the NEC, or reinstall warp) Pedro