From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 18 22:17:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA04863 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 22:17:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (staidans.client.uq.edu.au [130.102.39.106]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA04857 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 22:17:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au [203.12.39.2]) by seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA00476; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 16:12:18 +1000 Received: from AIDAN/SpoolDir by aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (Mercury 1.21); 19 Feb 96 16:12:19 -1000 Received: from SpoolDir by AIDAN (Mercury 1.21); 19 Feb 96 16:11:50 -1000 From: "Peter Stubbs" Organization: St Aidan's A.G.S. To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 16:11:45 -1000 Subject: Re: booting from primary wd on wdc1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <5ECF6CD2A38@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 18 Feb 96 at 21:36, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Peter Stubbs wrote: > > > > > At boot time it claims it's booting from wd1a, yet at the drive > > detection time it finds the drive & calls it wd2. Then panics when > > it can't mount root. > > Can you boot from a floppy OK using > > Boot: wd(2,a)/kernel ? > No I haven't tried this, but I don't think it'll work since at boot time it thinks it's on wd(1,a)! > You are probably stuck on that method for life since most BIOSs > can't boot off the second controller without help. > It boots OK, it just won't mount root. Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS. ph +61-07-3379-9911, fax +61-07-3379-9432