Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:21:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Alan Tang <nonfemett@worldnet.att.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't boot from the 2nd partition on second disk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807161421140.21519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980714171830.XOVZ25531@syoffice.singstar.com>
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> I'm having problem booting (automatically) into FreeBSD 2.2.6 installed on > my second disk's second partition: > > Primary Master: 250MB DOS-FAT16 > 3.2 GB NT 4.0 NTFS > Secondary Master: 1.2 GB NTFS > 347 MB FreeBSD 2.2.6 > Secondary Slave: CD-ROM Drive > > I can use FreeBSD boot manager (or third party boot manager) to boot from > second disk, on which I also installed FreeBSD boot manager. What happens > is: I press F5 to get into second disk, and press F2 to boot second > partition. But FreeBSD boot from 1:wd(1,a)kernel, which doesn't work, after > hardware probing, it says can't mount root disk and then reboot. The only > way to make it work is after pressing F2, at boot: prompt, manually typing > 1:wd(2,a)kernel. > > What is 1:wd(1,a)? Why can I only boot 1:wd(2,a)kernel? Do I have to > install FreeBSD on the first partition? According to your setup, it's your CDROM drive. Try this instead: 1:wd(0,a)/kernel Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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