Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 13:29:43 -0700 (PDT) From: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Failure to mount / after successful boot on wd2 Message-ID: <199708182029.NAA03536@george.arc.nasa.gov>
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I am attempting to get FreeBSD (2.2.2, although I could use 3.0-current if that would solve it), to boot off of a second EIDE disk which is master on the second EIDE controller. Win95 owns the disk on the first controller. I installed the Booteasy MBR on both disks, it seems to work fine, I point it at the second disk, it boots, it does everything perfectly correctly and happily until it wants to go multiuser and mount /, then, it can't mount root from "wd1" (why is "wd1" here, I thought we were using wd0 and wd2?) and then it dies. If I take the exact same disk, edit /etc/fstab (boot from floppy, mount using fixit), to point at wd0 instead of wd2, and disconnect the w95 disk at wd0 and reconnect the freebsd disk there, it works fine. Why can't it mount root on wd2, and what is pointing at "wd1" since /etc/fstab is set to mount filesystems on wd2? As I said, changing only /etc/fstab entries to wd0, everything works fine if the disk is the master disk on the primary controller. [Environment: Award BIOSes, largish EIDE disks, using CHS addressing for FreeBSD, LBA for Win95, a single slice (FDISK partition) on each disk, 4 Unix partitions /, swap, /var, /usr on the FreeBSD slice, named a, b, e, and f. Nothing exotic.] -Hugh LaMaster Hugh LaMaster, M/S 258-5, ASCII Email: hlamaster@mail.arc.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Or: lamaster@nas.nasa.gov Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 No Junkmail: USC 18 section 2701 Phone: 415/604-1056 Disclaimer: Unofficial, personal *opinion*.
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