Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 09:47:15 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Sann Yam <syam@george.lbl.gov>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 boot up Message-ID: <32E71783.7112@barcode.co.il> References: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970122160903.7369E-100000@localhost>
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Doug White wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Sann Yam wrote: > > > I'm trying to install the version of FreeBSD 2.1 on my Pentium machine > > on the second IDE drive, and encounter the problem or message of "mounting > > to wd1a " Failed! and system reboot. My first drive is also an IDE which > > has Win95 in it. And my second drive is wholly format for FreeBSD. > > I also tried to install both boot manager on both drive and still fail. > > Installing on the first drive seem to boot ok, but I would like it on > > the second drive. I chose option number 1) in the setup for boot manager. > > > > Any idea what happen or what is needed to be done, can a 2.1 boot on > > IDE on second drive? > > It should be OK. You may need to explicity give the location to your > kernel on the Boot: prompt, then rebuild your kernel with the proper > location on the 'kernel' config line. > > ie, if your root is on the second disk, type: > > wd(1,a)/kernel > > Or on the first: > > wd(0,a)/kernel > > Hope this helps. Also, if you're running 2.1, you might catch the > 2.2-RELEASE bus when it comes by -- 2.1.0 is pretty old. One more thing: If your disk is the master on the secondary EIDE chanel (i.e. wd2), this will still probably not work for you. At the end of the kernel startup you'll get the "panic: cannot mount root" message. In this case your only chance for 2.1.0 (if I remember correctly) is to build a kernel with the line: config kernel root on wd2 in it. You'll need to move your drive to another position to do that. For 2.1.5 and above you'll be able to boot with 1:wd(2,a)/kernel at the boot prompt, but I think this will not work with 2.1.0. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Nadav
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