Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 17:39:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: smartin@usit.net (Steve Martin) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 install problem Message-ID: <199508271539.RAA02723@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199508271307.JAA01402@use.usit.net> from "Steve Martin" at Aug 27, 95 09:07:22 am
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As Steve Martin wrote: > > ... I have MS-DOS on the > 800M drive, and wish to put FreeBSD on the second drive. > > the "boot:" prompt, I entered > > hd(1,a)/kernel > panic: unable to mount root I'm not totally sure right now, but i think the `hd' is only if you've got a wd-style disk as your primary (ST-506, ESDI, IDE), but wanna boot off a secondary sd-style (SCSI) disk. In your case, ``wd(1,a)/kernel'' should be appropriate. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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