Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:32:36 -0500 From: lynn@ruraltel.net (Jonathan Hogg) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Booting from 3rd harddrive Message-ID: <32FFF664.28B2@ruraltel.net>
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Dear BSDers, I recently installed FreeBSD as an X86 installation to a Western Digital 1.2GB WDAC31200 harddrive. The drive is my "third" drive, and is the second drive on the secondary EIDE controller of a very recent AWARD BIOS controlled motherboard. (AWARD v 4.51, I think). I installed BSD from the Walnut Creek 2.1.5 CD-ROM, and I got no errors during installation. When I finished and tried a reboot, BSD seemed to be doing fine down to the last second, and then it "paniced" trying to manage something toward the end of the boot sequence, saying it was unable to mount the root on wd2a. Well, wd2a is the first (only) slice on my third drive, all right. I then tried to run config on the next boot attempt. No problem running it. I excluded all devices I don't have under the Storage heading and tried to reboot. Same thing. Here's one catch, though. During install I told BSD not to install any MBR boot manager, since I use IBM's Boot Manager (that came with PartitionMagic 3.0 by PowerQuest). I have tried installing the BSD boot manager as well, thinking that it might correctly put itself in the first track of wd2 as the MBR sector. Then I would expect IBM boot manager to pass the baton to BSD manager, which would boot. It does just that, it seems, but I still can't mount the root. Of course, I know no one can just tell me the problem. But I thought that you might muster up some suggestions for me to try out. I'm very willing to experiment, but do have to keep a bootable Win95 machine up and going out of the whole affair. It is worth noting that I have successfully run this exact OS on this machine, booting as the second slice of my first harddrive, using the BSD boot manager. P.S. I just went back to make sure I had the slice wd2a marked bootable. I do, or at least it said CA when I left. I have yet to completely build new file systems and reinstall all files since switching to use of the BSD boot manager.
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