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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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