From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 03:15:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA13215 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 03:15:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA13210 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 03:15:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA29468; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 13:15:41 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma029466; Thu Mar 6 13:15:14 1997 Message-ID: <331EA703.7217@barcode.co.il> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 13:14:11 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Kleinsorge CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation-Problem References: <331E9338.1C90@post.rwth-aachen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Martin Kleinsorge wrote: > > Hello from Aachen! > > I tried to install FreeBSD on a second EIDE-HD. The Installation was > successfull - said the program - but I couldn't start BSD. ("Unable to > mount root"). It works only on the first EIDE-Controller, but I don't > want to dispense with my main-HD. What can I do? > > Thanks for Your help! Try giving 1:wd(2,a)/kernel at the Boot: prompt. If this works for you, rebuild a kernel with the line: config kernel root on wd2 in it. If it doesn't make that behavior the default, try renaming your wd2 drive to wd1 (again, in the kernel config file, and also change /etc/fstab). You may also search the archives for more detailed descriptions of the solution as this problem was answered many times before. Nadav