From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 18 21:42:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA03097 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 21:42:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA03089 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 21:41:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA15623; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 21:36:21 -0800 Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 21:36:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Peter Stubbs cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting from primary wd on wdc1 In-Reply-To: <5E63E645362@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Peter Stubbs wrote: > 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. Can you boot from a floppy OK using Boot: wd(2,a)/kernel ? You are probably stuck on that method for life since most BIOSs can't boot off the second controller without help. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major