From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 13 18:50:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA20472 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jh2.tor.servtech.com (jh2.tor.servtech.com [204.181.8.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA20449 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:50:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by jh2.tor.servtech.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA02163; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:51:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:49:52 -0400 (EDT) From: isis@jh2.tor.servtech.com To: z_keithd@TITAN.SFASU.EDU Subject: RE: Booting problems and mounting root Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 14-Jul-97 z_keithd@TITAN.SFASU.EDU wrote: >Ok...figuring that the only way I get get to dual-boot between windows 95 >and FreeBSD was to have the HD with win95 as the first of the two. So..I >swapped them, making wd0 now win95 and wd2 now FreeBSD. > >Everythings cool and it boots, EXCEPT for the fact that now it can't find >the root filesystem to mount. Here's my partition scheme on the now wd2 > >/ wd2s1a >swap wd2s1b >/usr wd2s1e (i think) >/var wd2s1f (i think) > I think you go : 1:wd(2,a)/kernel I'm not sure if you have to change the 'root on wd#' line in the kernel config f ile. I did and it boots that way Luke ---------------------------------- E-Mail: isis@jh2.tor.servtech.com Date: 13-Jul-97 Time: 21:49:53 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------