From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 19 18:47:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA13577 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 18:47:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (staidans.client.uq.edu.au [130.102.39.106]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA13525 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 18:45:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au [203.12.39.2]) by seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA02206; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 12:38:40 +1000 Received: from AIDAN/SpoolDir by aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (Mercury 1.21); 20 Feb 96 12:38:42 -1000 Received: from SpoolDir by AIDAN (Mercury 1.21); 20 Feb 96 12:38:15 -1000 From: "Peter Stubbs" Organization: St Aidan's A.G.S. To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 12:38:08 -1000 Subject: Re: booting from primary wd on wdc1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <6016A672E82@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 19 Feb 96, Doug White wrote: > > > > It boots OK, it just won't mount root. > > Why don't you just move your FreeBSD disk onto the primary > controller (wdc0)? That would solve a LOT of problems with this > boot. I think you mentioned there is only one device on each of > those controllers. > The whole exercise was to get it going on the second controler, so I could install FBSD on a system that only had room for it there for a friend. Your sugestion would solve my problem, but not the situation I'm working on Thanks anyway. Peter Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS. ph +61-07-3379-9911, fax +61-07-3379-9432