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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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Subject: Re: Booting to FreeBSD; Again, but Not the Same
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Christopher J. Booth wrote:
> 
> I have recently installed a 2nd hard drve, which is dedicated to FreeBSD.
> 
> The old hard drive is Master on IDE drive 1; the cdrom is slave on the 1st
> IDE drive. The new hard drive is jumpered as "single" on the 2nd IDE drive.
> I can now install from the CD-ROM, and in fact have. I am using LILO to
> boot to Linux and DOS on hard drive 1, and it it is succesful.
> 
> What I can not do is boot to FreeBSD.
> 
> Using LILO as my boot manager, I key in "bsd" at boot time, and the FreeBSD
> boot process begins. Then after a few minutes I receive this message:
> 
> panic: cannot mount root
> 
> and then it automatically reboots.
> 
> Root is the first partition after the MBR. How can I take the next step and
> get FreeBSD to completely boot?
> 
> Thank you, all.
> 
> Chris Booth
> 
> _____________________________________________________________________
> Christopher J. Booth   This speech of yours hath moved me,
> cbooth@mordor.com      And shall perchance do good: but speak you on;
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>                                                 --Edmund, _King Lear_

This is somewhat of a FAQ. What you need to do is:
1. Give 1:wd(2,a) at the Boot: prompt. This will let you boot FreeBSD.
2. In the kernel config file, modify the config line to read
config kernel root on wd2
3. Rebuild and install the kernel.

Nadav