From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 3 22:11:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1a.ispchannel.com (smtp.ispchannel.com [24.142.63.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2F537B685 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:11:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lds@ispchannel.com) Received: from spriggan ([24.142.91.45]) by smtp1a.ispchannel.com (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 7d3764cdaca754bf8ae20adf0db2aa60) with SMTP id <20000404051220.SLKT2325.smtp1a@spriggan> for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:12:20 -0700 Message-ID: <006f01bf9df4$33d2d760$2d5b8e18@spriggan> Reply-To: "Laurent de Segur" From: "Laurent de Segur" To: References: <200004040448.e344mDn01205@cytosine.dhs.org> Subject: Second IDE drive installation on IBM Thinkpad Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:11:15 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I use an IBM Thinkpad 600X. I just got the 3.4 cds and a second IDE drive that I put in the second bay. I copied the files to the DOS partition on the primary IDE drive (because the second drive now occupies the cdrom bay) and proceeded to the installation. I then, set up the bios to restart on the second drive by default and restarted. The bios kicks in and the drive is detected. I boot on the command line and hit ENTER to continue. The first time the unit booted I hung in the ISA detection process. Every time I hung I have to remove both power adapter and battery to reset the machine. The next time I restarted the system, I got to the point where I read the following messages: wt0 not found wcd0 not found changing root device to wd0s1a error 22 panic can't mount root. Restart in 15 seconds (I need to take out battery and power adapter here too!) The problem seems to be the change to wd0s1a because if I drop in the command line prior to booting, the loaddev and currdev are disk1s1a. Does anyone have any idea how I can change the boot params to point to the right partition for root? Is there a program like pdisk or fdisk under DOS that I can use to see the disk partitions? Thanks in advance for your help, Laurent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message