From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 26 12:19:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 293A914ED0 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 12:19:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eogren@earthlink.net) Received: from earthlink.net (ip29.boston-xcom.ma.pub-ip.psi.net [38.26.199.29]) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24611 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 12:19:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37EE7182.BCC64A4D@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 15:18:26 -0400 From: eric ogren X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: booting after install? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message