Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 23:10:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/13547: FreeBSD will not boot after installing to /wd3 when /wd2 is a CD/DVD-ROM Message-ID: <199909030610.XAA17766@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/13547; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: beholder@unios.dhs.org
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: i386/13547: FreeBSD will not boot after installing to /wd3 when /wd2 is a CD/DVD-ROM
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 08:00:32 +0200
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999 14:44:00 MST, beholder@unios.dhs.org wrote:
> Get 2 HDD's and 2 CD-ROM's (my config). Set up the primary IDE chain as
> (1)HDD (2)CD-ROM, and the secondary chain as (1)HDD (2)CD-ROM. Then
> install BSD on the second hard drive /wd3
Are you sure the second drive is wd3? Is that what it says in the boot
probe messages?
Have a look at the loader(8) manual page. In the EXAMPLES section, it
offers something that might help you:
Sets the disk unit of the root device to 2, and then boots. This
would be needed in the case of a two IDE disks system, with the
second IDE hard-wired to wd2 instead of wd1.
set root_disk_unit=2
boot /kernel
You might play around with root_disk_unit, after doing
set rootdev=wd2s1a
or
set rootdev=wd3s1a
If you don't come right, make sure you show us your kernel config. :-)
Later,
Sheldon.
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