Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:05:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Sridhar Krishnan <skrishna@cisco.com> To: questions@freebsd.org, support@cdrom.com Cc: kopti@seas.gwu.edu Subject: Re: Boot Manager/ BSD on second disk (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960625102840.2620D-100000@lint.cisco.com> Resent-Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960701095020.26259I@mother.cdrom.com>
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Hi BSD'ers, This is in response to my earlier posting re: booting FreeBSD off the second hard disk. I have not recvd. much any solutions thus far. When I re-installed the whole thing again, I got a message "root system is read-only" in a dialog-box. Does anybody know what this means ? What I have found is the following: - If I install the BootEasy (during the sysinstall), the MBR is put on the boot area of the second disk (because FreeBSD is on second disk ?). I changed BIOS to look at second disk first for booting purposes, and I got the F1- dos, F2- BSD prompt. F2 would boot fine from the hard disk but would error with a panic: error in root (I don't recall the exact string). I have to try to use the fixit floppy to see if I can fsck the root system. I tried several options on the BIOS to "enable/disable" parameter mapping etc. - The install diskette has an option to change the root file system at the Boot: prompt. I tried -a flag, but it did not seem to work. Help will be greatly appreciated! TIA, Sridhar Krishnan
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