Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 16:30:02 -0800 (PST) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: misc/3086: panic: cannot mount root - on boot, when FreeBSD on second BIOS Drive Message-ID: <199703250030.QAA23582@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/3086; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: icedragon@eotd.com Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/3086: panic: cannot mount root - on boot, when FreeBSD on second BIOS Drive Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 01:11:18 +0100 As icedragon@eotd.com wrote: > I have FreeBSD on a partition on my second IDE drive on my system - > it cannot mount root changing root device to wd1a (which I believe > is the correct device...) It ain't the correct device. Most likely, your second IDE drive is the first drive on the second controller (with the second drive on the first controller missing). Use 1:wd(2,a)/kernel to boot. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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