Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:15:40 -0400 From: "Alan Tang" <nonfemett@worldnet.att.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: can't boot from the 2nd partition on second disk Message-ID: <19980714171830.XOVZ25531@syoffice.singstar.com>
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Hello there: I'm having problem booting (automatically) into FreeBSD 2.2.6 installed on my second disk's second partition: Primary Master: 250MB DOS-FAT16 3.2 GB NT 4.0 NTFS Secondary Master: 1.2 GB NTFS 347 MB FreeBSD 2.2.6 Secondary Slave: CD-ROM Drive I can use FreeBSD boot manager (or third party boot manager) to boot from second disk, on which I also installed FreeBSD boot manager. What happens is: I press F5 to get into second disk, and press F2 to boot second partition. But FreeBSD boot from 1:wd(1,a)kernel, which doesn't work, after hardware probing, it says can't mount root disk and then reboot. The only way to make it work is after pressing F2, at boot: prompt, manually typing 1:wd(2,a)kernel. What is 1:wd(1,a)? Why can I only boot 1:wd(2,a)kernel? Do I have to install FreeBSD on the first partition? Could someony please let me know? Thanks. Alan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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