Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 10:22:51 -0500 From: Wm Foote <bfoote@bigfoot.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Technical questions, please forward the the proper person Message-ID: <33BD154B.87E233A4@bigfoot.com>
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Hi, I'm new to UNIX and naturally am having a little difficulty. I have two question then I'll describe my system. 1. I tried installing FreeBSD on a drive by itself configured as the master drive on the secondary IDE channel. I got the msg 'PANIC, cannot mount /root' or something like that. When I switched the drive to be the master on the primary channel and reinstalled it worked. Please let me know if what I was trying to do is allowed and if so what did I do wrong? 2. I cannot find any instructions in my 1750+ page FreeBSD manual on how to configure Booteasy. I would like to have a choice of booting Win NT (located in an NTFS partition of the master drive on the primary channel), Win95 (on a FAT32 partition of the master drive on the primary channel), or FreeBSD (located on its own partition on the master drive on the secondary channel). Please advice on how this can be accomplished. My system is as follows: IBM 6x86MX-233 processor, AMI Win BIOS (revision date ?? I'd need to reboot now), TX PRO choppiest (generic), Popgun motherboard ?? w/sound, VideoLogic GraphixStar 600 PCI 2MB, Seagate Medalist Pro 6.5GB as master on the primary channel divided into two partitions of equal size NTFS/FAT32, 24X generic ATAPI CD-ROM as slave on the primary channel, Quantum fireball ST series 3.2GB as master on the secondary channel FreeBSD partition, Mitsumi ATAPI CD-R as slave on the secondary channel, MS bus mouse, no network, no other cards, 96MB SDRAM, 1MB L2 cache, and an HP Deskjet 400 printer. My BIOS allows me to boot off any IDE device including CD-ROMs (FreeBSD didn't boot but Win NT 4.0 Workstation did) As you may have noticed I said that FreeBSD installed ok on the primary channel, but later I said it was on the secondary channel, and that is correct. I had to switch my drives back after ruining 3 CD-R disks. For some reason what works for FreeBSD does not work for my CD-R software (Adaptec Easy-CD Pro 95). I have not yet tried rebooting FreeBSD to see if it will now work. Thank you for your help. Wm. Foote bfoote@bigfoot.com wfoote@ipalco.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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