From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 1 03:46:59 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA05714 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 03:46:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA05704 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 03:46:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id UAA02848; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 20:46:12 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36B52198.40908ABC@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 12:38:00 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Santiago Perez-Cacho Jr." CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't boot from 1st disk on 2nd IDE controller References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message