From owner-freebsd-questions  Thu Jul 16 14:22:09 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17736
          for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:22:09 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17725
          for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:22:04 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu)
Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost)
          by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA05646;
          Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:21:37 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu)
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
In-Reply-To: <19980714171830.XOVZ25531@syoffice.singstar.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807161421140.21519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG


> 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