Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 05:12:14 -0300 From: Capriotti <capriotti@geocities.com> To: rknebel@csrlink.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980302040055.00965520@pop.mpc.com.br>
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Boy, if it is your third drive it should be your Master disk on second (ide I presume) controller. I think you have your CD rom as mastr on second IDE controller. Just change it to slave and the HD in question to master. There will be no harm to your DOS, Win95 and NT installations. The CD drive will still work fine. Anoter topic: you will have to install another boot manager - it is provided in the FBSD CD disk 1, and it is called osbsx.exe; It is located at X:\tools you canb use the so called "osbsBETA", wich works fine, w/o any bugs for me. When you run those files they will give you instructions on how to perform installation. It is pretty simple and clean. One tip: Win95/DOS have to be in THE FIRST phisical disk in order to boot. It is an MS Unique feature (sorry for the sarcasm). WinNT will work fine in the 2nd disk, if this is the case, IF it was installed there at first. Never tried to boot NT from 3rd disk (any talers for this ???) The regular boot manager installed by FBSD will not be able to handle the boot of a third disk. when installing FBSD, instruct it NOT to install a boot manager. Install osbsX latter, aftyer installing Free. I hope it helps. At 08:42 PM 2/27/98 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, >I am trying to install freebsd on my Third hard drive. It is the secondary >slave. I partioned it with the fdisk in the freebsad install with a 80 Meg >partition at the end for my swap and the rest of the 1.6 gig hard drive as >root at the beginning of the disk. I get through the install but when I >try to boot the system it eventually hangs and says cannot mount root. >It says changing root device to wd2a cannot mount root. >On fdisk my root partition is wd3s1a. >Can anyone help me out? >Thanks Alot > > > -- Rick Knebel >rknebel@csrlink.net > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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