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Date:      Mon, 01 Feb 1999 12:38:00 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        "Santiago Perez-Cacho Jr." <sanper@pcfa.es.eu.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't boot from 1st disk on 2nd IDE controller
Message-ID:  <36B52198.40908ABC@newsguy.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990131225006.15922A-100000@ergopc.pcfa.es.eu.org>

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"Santiago Perez-Cacho Jr." wrote:
> 
> changing root device to wd1s1a
>                         ^^^^^^
> changing root device to wd1a
>                         ^^^^
> error 6: panic : cannot mount root (2)
> 
> It doesn't matter what I set as num_ide_disks and rootdev, the system
> always tries to mount partitions on wd1. Is this a known issue or am I
> doing something wrong?

Someone here had the same problem, and modified the source code to
deal with it.

The easiest solution is simply to use wd1. Instead of configuring
your second IDE as wd2, configure it as wd1.

--
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com

	She just looked at him over the rotating pencil like, how slow can
a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?



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