From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 3 17:08:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA07676 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 17:08:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA07489 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 17:08:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA19957; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 20:01:55 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: galaxy@razin.zssm.zp.ua ("Maxim V. Razin") Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root partition not found Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 00:03:51 GMT Message-ID: <3575e392.850324712@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 1 Jun 98 14:45:37 +0300 (EED), in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >During the first boot after installing of my 2.2.2-RELEASE it >successfully passes through device tests and stops with the >smth like "root partition not found". Actually, it tries to >find root at wd1a although it is at wd2s1. > >How to explain to the kernel where the root partition is placed? At the boot prompt, try something like 2:wd(0,a)/kernel" This is just from memory, so I could be wrong on the exact syntax, where the 2 is the 3rd IDE drive if thats what you want to boot. Either way, check the help at boot time. Check also for the line config kernel root on wd0 in your kernel config file. ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message