From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Aug 27 08:46:09 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA25771 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 08:46:09 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA25765 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 08:45:50 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id RAA05893; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 17:44:16 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA04363; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 17:44:15 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA02723; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 17:39:29 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508271539.RAA02723@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 install problem To: smartin@usit.net (Steve Martin) Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 17:39:28 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199508271307.JAA01402@use.usit.net> from "Steve Martin" at Aug 27, 95 09:07:22 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 592 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)