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Date:      Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:10:49 -0500 
From:      "Havener,  Kevin" <Kevin.Havener@afccc.af.mil>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Booting from 2nd disk
Message-ID:  <E55BC5FC7AA9D211A00F00104B07D7DB4B6692@thor.afccc.af.mil>

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In The Complete FreeBSD, 3rd ed, p102, Lehey says about the message:
"panic:  cannot mount root"

"You have two IDE disks, each configured as the master on their respective
IDE busses ... FreeBSD is on the second disk"  Describes my situation
perfectly.

"To tell the loader how to find it, stop it before booting and enter:
<disk1s1a:> boot 1:wd(2,a)kernel"  This works.

However, he goes on to say:  "You don't have to do this every time: once
you have determined the correct values to use, put the command exactly as
you would have typed it in the file /boot.config.  FreeBSD uses the
contents of this file as the default response to the boot: prompt."  Does
anyone know why this wouldn't work as Lehey describes.

I start my boot from LILO, interrupt it immediately after I select FreeBSD
from my available OSes, type the command, except I just type the
"1:wd(2,a)kernel" without the "boot".  It doesn't seem to like the "boot"
part.
I have tried it both ways in the boot.config file with no luck. I've been 
unable to completely automate the booting of FreeBSD, is there something 
else I'm missing?  BTW, I've not had any luck doing this with either 3.2R or

3.4R, maybe the book describes an earlier boot process?

Thanks,
Kevin  



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