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Date:      Fri, 10 Oct 1997 10:25:00 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE>
To:        skr@chistech.com (Satish Kumar Ramaswamy)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: My NT,Win95 screwed up ???!!!
Message-ID:  <199710100825.KAA27430@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19971008102347.00924c20@halaus.chistech.com> from Satish Kumar Ramaswamy at "Oct 8, 97 10:23:47 am"

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> 
> I have 2 IDE drives... and a IDE CDROM.
> 
> The first drive and the cd rom are connected to the first IDE connector
> and the second drive is in the second IDE connector...
> 
> I have win95 and winNt installed in the first drive.. (FAT partitions)
> I installed FreeBSD in the second drive which is the secondary
> master.
> 
> When I installed FreeBSD with  the boot easy boot manager... 
> I am not able to boot the Freebsd .. I get an error 
> panic: "unable to mount root" and goes to reboot.
> I am not sure how to fix this...

After the ``boot:'' prompt enter

1:wd(2,a)kernel

The ``wd(2,a)'' tells the kernel to mount the
root filesystem from the secondary master.

To avoid entering the bootstring each time you boot
you can use nextboot(8).

Wolfgang



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