From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 18 15:29:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA11742 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 15:29:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (staidans.client.uq.edu.au [130.102.39.106]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA11737 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 15:29:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au [203.12.39.2]) by seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA15500 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:29:16 +1000 Received: from AIDAN/SpoolDir by aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (Mercury 1.21); 19 Feb 96 09:29:16 -1000 Received: from SpoolDir by AIDAN (Mercury 1.21); 19 Feb 96 09:28:50 -1000 From: "Peter Stubbs" Organization: St Aidan's A.G.S. To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:28:45 -1000 Subject: booting from primary wd on wdc1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <5E63E645362@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I've been trying to install freeBSD at home for some time now. I have OS/2 on the primary drive on the 1st hard disk controller. The second disk is on the second controller, and has a 50M DOS partition (for games) and 350M for FBSD. When I install from floppy all goes well. I select wd2 for the install, then I build a new kernel from the shell on F4. At boot time it claims it's booting from wd1a, yet at the drive detection time it finds the drive & calls it wd2. Then panics when it can't mount root. I have tried putting "root on wd1", and on wd2 in the new kernel. The /etc/fstab entries all point to slices on wd2. I'm using the default boot manager, I can't remember its name. It has the F1 F5 style options. Any ideas? Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS. ph +61-07-3379-9911, fax +61-07-3379-9432