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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:19:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Nick Utenkov <nick77@aha.ru>
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Subject: Re: Two hard disks
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On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Nick Utenkov wrote:

> Hi, All.
> 
> I had 1 EIDE disk with MS-DOS and FreeBSD 2.2 installed on it.
> Then I added second disk as first disk (i.e. on first controller) and
> replaced
> my first disk to second controller. Then I install Win95 on first disk
> and manualy replaced master boot record (which I saved beforehand).
> Now the situation is :
> if I place the disk with FreeBSD to first controller - FreeBSD work OK
> else it says that it can't mount root.

This is a known problem.

> I've tried to recompile kernel (to enable wd1,wd2.., change option
> "config root kernel wd2") and edited file /etc/fstab (replacing wd0 to
> wd2)
> but this does not help.
> How to solve this problem ?

Try typing

1:wd(2,a)/kernel

at the Boot: prompt.  If that gets you started, run

echo "1:wd(2,a)/kernel" > /boot.config

as root to make it the default.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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