From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 5 09:33:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA23488 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 09:33:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.lbl.gov (zippy.lbl.gov [131.243.2.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA23424 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 09:33:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fontenay@zippy.lbl.gov) Received: from localhost (fontenay@localhost) by zippy.lbl.gov (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA01058 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 16:33:12 GMT (envelope-from fontenay@zippy.lbl.gov) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 16:33:12 +0000 (GMT) From: "Gerry Fontenay (ITG Student -BLT)" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, on intel: freebsd is installed on the secondary master ide. the bootmgr seems to be installed on both drives (i.e. i get the correct choices for partitions, F1, F2 ,F5 .) However, if i don't explicitly define 1:wd(2,a)kernel at the boot prompt (after the correct partition selection) , the boot fails because the root cannot be mounted. I guess that somewhere in the process the device for root gets switched to another partition. I don;t particlarly wish to force users to explicitly define the kernel parameters, so does anyone know how to fix this ? . I looked through the config (-c) and couldn't find anything there. Please mail me directly, Thanks for any assistance. gerry fontenay@george.lbl.gov To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message