From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 3 9:14:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from janus.afccc.af.mil (janus.afccc.af.mil [209.22.30.2]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3717418F for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 09:14:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from janus.afccc.af.mil (root@localhost) by janus.afccc.af.mil with ESMTP id RAA16971 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:14:38 GMT Received: from thor.afccc.af.mil (thor.afccc.af.mil [209.22.31.24]) by janus.afccc.af.mil with ESMTP id RAA16967 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:14:38 GMT Received: by thor.afccc.af.mil with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:10:50 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Havener, Kevin" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Booting from 2nd disk Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:10:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message