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Date:      Wed, 20 May 1998 14:26:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "John H. Barbee" <jbarbee@pom-unix1.pomona.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: root on second slice
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980520142609.28873h-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9805201757.AA00389@pom-unix1.pomona.edu>

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On Wed, 20 May 1998, John H. Barbee wrote:

> if the root fs is sitting on the second slice of the harddisk how should the
> config directive in the kernel be written?

No additional changes are necessary unless you have multiple FreeBSD
slices on one disk.

> right now thsi is teh error i receive upon startup, panic: can't find anyone
> to mount root for me.

That's a different error. Could I see the boot message output?

> and this happened right after i loaded my custom kernel.

Perhaps you forgot to compile in your disk controller?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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