From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 15 11:50:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA12237 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 11:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onyx.atipa.com (user11065@ns.atipa.com [208.128.22.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA12218 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 11:50:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 1018); 15 Aug 1997 18:53:09 -0000 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 12:53:09 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa X-Sender: freebsd@dot.ishiboo.com To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can not mount root on wd(2,a) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -- 2.2.2-RELEASE Installation --- I am using an ASUS TX97-XE motherboard (w/ 430TX chipset), with 2 hard drives (Quantum ST 3.2GB Ultra-DMA and Samsung 1GB cheapo). If I put the cheap hard drive on "Primary Salve", the performance of the UltraDMA will suffer. The interface needs to run in a common mode (PIO-4 since Samsung is not U-DMA capable), so Ultra DMA transfers would be disabled. So, I have the Quantum as Primary Master and the Samsung as Secondary Master. The kernel appropriately finds the drives as wd0 and wd2, but panics when it can't mount root on wd0 (as it should). Fresh install w/ kernel.GENERIC. If I try to: Boot: wd(2,a)/kernel.GENERIC, it responds: Error: D: 0x82 C:0 H:0 S:0, and I need to reboot. I have also tried wd(1,a)/kernel, which surprisingly boots the kernel(???), but then can't mount root. Any Suggestions? Kevin PS- Where are the docs for the "Boot:" options? It says [-abcCdghrsv] are acceptable flags, but I can not find what many of these do. What's the man page or FAQ?