Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 12:26:07 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner? Message-ID: <E0wJ1JQ-0000Zx-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:59:29 %2B0200." <199704201359.PAA03394@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> References: <199704201359.PAA03394@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
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In message <199704201359.PAA03394@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Wolfgang Helbig writes: : This does not seem so any more, sorry about the wild speculation. : The geometry seems to have worked OK. To avoid the panic "cannot mount root" : we had to disable the IDE disk in the BIOS. We did that before installing : DOS to protect the IDE disk. Reenabling the IDE disk caused the kernel : and/or BIOS to get confused, so root on sd0 could not be mounted. That's the problem I wasted a bunch of time on. Turned out that I hadn't told the disklabel it was SCSI so it used wd by default. Warner
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