Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:37:28 GMT From: Mike Williams <mikew@smartpt.demon.co.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: wd1 install - boot problems Message-ID: <821396320.19188.0@smartpt.demon.co.uk>
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Hi, I'm a bit new to this so you'll have to bear with me. I've just bought the FreeBSD CD and a second EIDE hard drive for my PC. I've installed the drive (off the same controller as the primary) and it's recognised by fdisk. I booted bsd from a floppy and did an install to the new (slave) drive - wd1 (I believe). I booted from floppy again and at the boot prompt told it to use wd1 (had to specify /kernel.GENERIC as it couldn't find /kernel). Wow did I see some errors. Some Debug ones (came up and went too fast) and superblock something or another. I get a prompt but can't do anything. I suspect that the problem may be that bsd thinks the root partition is on wd0. How can I tell it it isn't or re-install so as it uses wd1 (that's if this is the problem). I suppose I could disconnect wd0 and use wd1 as the only drive (would I have to repartition it to make it bootable for this to work? It's not bootable at the moment) then reconfigure the kernel to set the root partition to use wd1, then paste it all back together again. I really don't know what's required. Please help. Where can I get the doco on building a new kernel (in Mickey Mouse language)? Is all this doco on the CD? I can't read the faqs into windows notepad. Looks like there are no line feeds in the text. Will I always be faced with having to boot from floppy if bsd is on the second disk? Am I stupid or is this hard? Many thanks for you time. Regards, Mike.
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