From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 14 10:19:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA05468 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 10:19:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mtiwmhc02.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc02.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA05463 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 10:19:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nonfemett@worldnet.att.net) Received: from syoffice.singstar.com ([12.68.162.183]) by mtiwmhc02.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.03 118 118 102) with ESMTP id <19980714171830.XOVZ25531@syoffice.singstar.com> for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 17:18:30 +0000 From: "Alan Tang" To: Subject: can't boot from the 2nd partition on second disk Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:15:40 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19980714171830.XOVZ25531@syoffice.singstar.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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