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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