From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 12:05:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA29414 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:05:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lint.cisco.com (lint.cisco.com [171.68.223.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA29396 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:05:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (skrishna@localhost) by lint.cisco.com (8.6.10/CISCO.SERVER.1.1) id MAA00758; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:05:49 -0700 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:05:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Sridhar Krishnan To: questions@freebsd.org, support@cdrom.com cc: kopti@seas.gwu.edu Subject: Re: Boot Manager/ BSD on second disk (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi BSD'ers, This is in response to my earlier posting re: booting FreeBSD off the second hard disk. I have not recvd. much any solutions thus far. When I re-installed the whole thing again, I got a message "root system is read-only" in a dialog-box. Does anybody know what this means ? What I have found is the following: - If I install the BootEasy (during the sysinstall), the MBR is put on the boot area of the second disk (because FreeBSD is on second disk ?). I changed BIOS to look at second disk first for booting purposes, and I got the F1- dos, F2- BSD prompt. F2 would boot fine from the hard disk but would error with a panic: error in root (I don't recall the exact string). I have to try to use the fixit floppy to see if I can fsck the root system. I tried several options on the BIOS to "enable/disable" parameter mapping etc. - The install diskette has an option to change the root file system at the Boot: prompt. I tried -a flag, but it did not seem to work. Help will be greatly appreciated! TIA, Sridhar Krishnan