From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 26 10:19:37 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA23373 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 10:19:37 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.atinc.com [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA23367 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 10:19:34 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id NAA05989; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 13:15:30 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 13:15:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: Drive 2 ques. To: maloneyb@cybercity.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9506261512.D9979Zd@cybercity.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 26 Jun 1995 maloneyb@cybercity.com wrote: > UNIX in general. I am having a minor installation problem. I am trying > to install FreeBSD on my second drive, a Western Digital Caviar 1080MB ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Now, to the actual problem..... When it is finished with the initial > installation, it reboots, I select the partition to boot from, it asks > for the kernel, and I typy hd(1,a)/kernel, like I'm supposed to. Ok, > all this runs fine and dandy until almost the end, where it hits a > system panic and I have to reboot because it can't mount the root. Any > ideas? if you did not install the booteasy boot manager on the first AND the second disks, please do so. the bootmanager will allow you to select which disk to boot from and which os, if more than one is installed. booteasy will remember your most recent selection and default to that boot disk and os, if the timeout expires. Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346