From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 21 04:45:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A5337B401 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 04:45:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail3.netbeat.de (mail3.netbeat.de [62.208.140.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D73FD43FAF for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 04:44:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@gutza36.de) Received: (qmail 7655 invoked by uid 101); 21 Jun 2003 11:45:04 -0000 Received: from dsl01.212.114.214.113.nefkom.net (HELO Xanthos) (212.114.214.113) by mail3.netbeat.de with SMTP; 21 Jun 2003 11:45:04 -0000 From: "Alexandru Savescu" To: Viktor Lazlo Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 13:45:20 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3EF46170.8550.BB609@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20030620220016.B3717@njamn8or.no-ip.org> References: <3EF3FDFB.14131.5EB48@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.11) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG cc: rofug@rofug.ro Subject: Re: (Fwd) mountroot> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 11:45:00 -0000 hi, exactly this is my problem.. i've read the 7.3 section of the handbook and searched also other forums and sites for this .. it seems i'm not the only one with this problem but i did not find somewhere an answer.. my lilo.conf looks like this: other=/dev/sdb1 table=/dev/sdb loader=/boot/chain.b label="FreeBSD" what is going wrong?! mfg Alexandru On 20 Jun 2003 at 22:03, Viktor Lazlo wrote: Have you followed the applicable instructions from section 7.3.1 of the handbook? It give a sample format and instructions specifically for when linux and FreeBSD are on separate hard drives. Cheers, Viktor > On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Alexandru Savescu wrote: > > > Hello BSD-lovers, > > i'm stuck on a tricky situation: > > > > i got FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE running smoothly on a SCSI disk, > > but i had to move the HDD on a multi-OS system, so i am > > heading this problem: > > > > there are 3 disks > > - ad0: IDE WDC-drive with a MSwinOS > > - da0: SCSI IBM-drive with Debian Linux > > - da1: SCSI IBM FreeBSD disk > > > > ad0 is the primary disk with lilo in the MBR > > > > lilo.conf uses > > > > boot=/dev/hda > > ... > > /dev/sda1 to boot the debianOS > > /dev/sdb1 to boot FreeBSD > > > > well, this is working fine for winOS and linux but FreeBSD > > returns this error lines: > > > > Root mount failed: 22 > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da2s1a > > Root mount failed: 22 > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da2a > > Root mount failed: 22 > > > > Manual root filesystem specification: > > mountroot> > > > > > > i've tried all kind of combos like ufs:/dev/da1s1a but nothing worked out. > > what i still can't understand is why it's trying to mount /dev/da2 instead of /dev/da1 > >