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From: Juha <juha.korkiakangas@swipnet.se>
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Steve wrote:

> 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.
>
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    Your BIOS sees Hard-drives as disk 0 and disk 2, FreeBSD sees them
as wd0
and wd2. Stop loader before booting and enter : boot  1:wd(2,a)kernel.
If it
works, type same line in /boot.config(create it, if necessary), this
works
fine for me.

Good luck,
Juha


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