From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 11:47:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA13623 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 11:47:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA13618 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 11:47:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA00352; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 11:45:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 11:45:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Jonathan Hogg cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from 3rd harddrive In-Reply-To: <32FFF664.28B2@ruraltel.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Jonathan Hogg wrote: > I recently installed FreeBSD as an X86 installation to a Western Digital > 1.2GB WDAC31200 harddrive. The drive is my "third" drive, and is the > second drive on the secondary EIDE controller of a very recent AWARD > BIOS controlled motherboard. (AWARD v 4.51, I think). > > I installed BSD from the Walnut Creek 2.1.5 CD-ROM, and I got no errors > during installation. > > When I finished and tried a reboot, BSD seemed to be doing fine down to > the last second, and then it "paniced" trying to manage something toward > the end of the boot sequence, saying it was unable to mount the root on > wd2a. Well, wd2a is the first (only) slice on my third drive, all > right. This is common. You'll have to use a boot floppy and type 'wd(2,a)/kernel' to get it started, then rebuild your kernel and tell it root is on wd1. I would suggest moving this disk to the slave position to the primary controller; it will save you many, many headaches. There was another suggestion to remove the wd1 entry under the wdc0 entry, then change wd2 to wd1. See the mail archives for details. > Here's one catch, though. During install I told BSD not to install any > MBR boot manager, since I use IBM's Boot Manager (that came with > PartitionMagic 3.0 by PowerQuest). That should boot it no problem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major