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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Subject: Re: misc/3086: panic: cannot mount root - on boot, when FreeBSD on second BIOS Drive
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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.
 
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 cheers, J"org
 
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