From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 29 21:19:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nu.binary.net (nu.binary.net [12.13.120.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55800150EA for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:19:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@piperscreek.com) Received: from steve (cras29p6.navix.net [207.91.29.57]) by nu.binary.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with SMTP id XAA30293 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 23:19:29 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <008901bf0afa$fb57cbc0$391d5bcf@steve> From: "Steve" To: "freebsdquestions" Subject: can't mount root Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 23:19:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG thanks to all so far.. and now. two IDE drives 1HD primary master CD primary slave 2HD secodary master put bsd on HD2 said couldn't mount root - rebooting added root_disk_unit="2" to loader.conf hoping to point to HD2 now says changing root device to wd2s2a changing root device to wd2a right after one another to load bsd on the second HD, I have had to to disconnect the normal HD1... with this things work fine with a single HD but still can't mount root with both HD's connected. Looking at HD2 (while it is the only one installed) I see using a 'df' things like /dev/ws0s2a / If I am reading this correctly, doens't that say that the root is on the 1st and only HD zero ? If that is the case.. I would think that I would need to have both HD's connected when I loaded bsd from the CD-ROM.. but, when I try that, I only show HD1. sure don't want to blow that off (Win98) and my email/word processor stuff. Any thoughts on how to accomplish this? Thanks as usual. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message