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Date:      Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:49:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:      isis@jh2.tor.servtech.com
To:        z_keithd@TITAN.SFASU.EDU
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Booting problems and mounting root
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970713215116.isis@jh2.tor.servtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.PMDF.3.95.970713201629.116857A-100000@TITAN.SFASU.EDU>

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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

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Date: 13-Jul-97
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