From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 22 11:17:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB4F416A41C for ; Sun, 22 May 2005 11:17:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fteg@london.com) Received: from webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A648743D1D for ; Sun, 22 May 2005 11:17:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fteg@london.com) Received: from unknown (unknown [192.168.9.180]) by webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with QMQP id 57151180013E for ; Sun, 22 May 2005 11:17:51 +0000 (GMT) X-OB-Received: from unknown (205.158.62.182) by wfilter.us4.outblaze.com; 22 May 2005 11:17:51 -0000 Received: by ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4E9721CE303; Sun, 22 May 2005 11:17:51 +0000 (GMT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 2.117 (F2.6; A1.17; B2.12; Q2.03) Received: from [213.187.181.70] by ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com with http for fteg@london.com; Sun, 22 May 2005 06:17:51 -0500 X-Mailer: mail.com webmail From: "Fafa Hafiz Krantz" To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 06:17:51 -0500 X-Originating-Ip: 213.187.181.70 X-Originating-Server: ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com Message-Id: <20050522111751.4E9721CE303@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> Cc: Subject: Please help me booooot! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 11:17:52 -0000 hey! i have two s-ata harddrives on this computer: ad6, with FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE and ad4, with Windows XP when i boot either ad6 or ad4 alone, everything is cool. when i plug both ad4 and ad6 into, i am brought to the freebsd bootloader. however, half-way down the boot i get: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad6s1a setrootbyname failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 when i switch ad6's cable over to ad4 and vice versa, my computer doesn't boot past its bios at all. what's wrong here? i just need to mount ad4 so i can back up some stuff, that's all. thank you so much! -- Fafa Hafiz Krantz Research Designer @ http://www.home.no/barbershop Enlightened @ http://www.home.no/barbershop/smart/sharon.pdf --=20 ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm