Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:10:22 PST From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: Peter Stubbs <peters@staidan.qld.edu.au>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting from primary wd on wdc1 Message-ID: <9602191710.AA14130@gnu.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Feb 1996 21:36:20 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960218213501.15513D-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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> On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Peter Stubbs wrote: > > > 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. > I found: build a kernel with wd2 as the boot device boot from device with fbdsboot -r -D kernel (I think) [compiled in rootdev, dos file "kernel") worked... -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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