Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 15:18:26 -0400 From: eric ogren <eogren@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: booting after install? Message-ID: <37EE7182.BCC64A4D@earthlink.net>
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Hi all-
Here's the way my system is setup:
wdc0: wd0 (8gig HD, nothing FBSD related on it)
no wd1
wdc1: wd2 (CDROM drive)
wd3 (My FBSD drive)
After installing FBSD-3.3-RELEASE and trying to boot from the
harddrive, I get a "Cannot mount root on wd1a", followd by a "Cannot
mount root on wd1s2a".
Now, I know that this is covered in the FAQ, but it seems this entry is
before the bootstrap loader (I remember booting with "the
1:wd(3,a)kernel" syntax in FBSD-2.1).
I saw a "rootdev" variable when I went into the bootstrap command-line,
so I tried going to the command line, unloading the kernel, and doing a
"set rootdev=wd3a" and "set rootdev=wd3s2a", and then running "boot",
but the exact same error message occurs (still tries to mount wd1).
I don't really want to start switching my drives around unless I
absolutely have to -- does anyone know how to get the rootdev variable
to work?
Thanks
Eric
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