Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 23:14:38 -0800 From: Don Humphreys <drisin@citycom.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installation problem and question Message-ID: <386B065E.31FF336F@citycom.com>
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Hello. I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.2 onto the second EIDE drive on a P166 intel chip based PC on the second drive... is a Maxtor drive (if memory serves) and it is 6.1+ GB...(6179mb). Installation goes ok.... until I try to boot, selecting FreeBsd from installed OS/2 boot manager option. The boot- up goes ok until it fails with the message unable to mount root. I just tried a third time after re-partitioning the drive so that FBSD was placed close to the start of the second drive and got the same results. By way of providing more complete info, FreeBSD will be one of two operating systems on the PC...the other is W95 running on a FAT32 formatted drive in primary C partition. To provide a final comment, I just installed FBSD on the primary Fujitsu drive (1623mb) and the installation succeeded and it booted up ok. Thanks for any comments or suggestions in advance regarding how I might have success installing on the second drive. I have installed the OS several times in the past but am rusty and not an expert...I'm wondering if the size of the target partition might be the problem when trying to install to this maxtor drive and if maybe I could fix problem by going with later release of FreeBSD? Thanks. Don Humphreys To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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