From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 9 08:58:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA21147 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 08:58:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from csd.cs.technion.ac.il (csd.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA21141 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 08:58:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by csd.cs.technion.ac.il (8.6.11/8.6.10) id SAA26438; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 18:56:37 +0300 Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 18:56:36 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron X-Sender: nadav@csd To: Paul Walsh cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drive labels on secondary IDE In-Reply-To: <320B40AC.A62@nation-net.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Paul Walsh wrote: > This is what I have : > Primary IDE = HD master, cd slave > Secondary IDE = HD master, no slave > > The first HD is freeBSD bootable and I'm putting a second installation onto > HD2 with a full partition ( to eventually move everything to from the first > disk) > > What would be the correct (default) name for the secondary IDE HD? > Is it wd1 or wd2? > > The 'fdisk' utility in freeBSD defaults it to wd2. So that in the slice > editor I have options to partition wd0 and wd2 but no wd1. > > However when I try to boot from HD2 (after hitting F5) the boot uses wd1a and > then I get the 'Panic can't mount root' problem. I try putting wd(2,a) but > this totally hangs. You should reconfigure your kernel and change the "config kernel" line to be: config kernel root on wd2 This is because the BIOS numbers the disks differently than FreeBSD does. > > Any ideas? > Is it true that the CD needs to be configured bootable and not slave? > > > -- > paul@nation-net.com Walsh Simmons > 0161-839 9337 Manchester, UK > Nadav