From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 1 14:30:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA27183 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 14:30:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cidaut4.eis.uva.es (cidaut4.eis.uva.es [157.88.142.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA27177 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 14:30:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sanper@pcfa.es.eu.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cidaut4.eis.uva.es (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id XAA12442; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 23:33:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (sanper@localhost) by ergopc.pcfa.es.eu.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA01151; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 23:21:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sanper@ergopc.pcfa.es.eu.org) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 23:21:33 +0100 (CET) From: "Santiago Perez-Cacho Jr." Reply-To: "Santiago Perez-Cacho Jr." To: Mike Smith cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't boot from 1st disk on 2nd IDE controller In-Reply-To: <199902010517.VAA10261@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > set root_disk_unit=2 > That did it!!! FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT is now happily running on the master disk of the second IDE controller. > > Hello!! > > I'm running 4.0-CURRENT cvsupped last Friday. I've tried to move my > > installation from a partition on the first disk of the first IDE > > controller to a new disk that I've placed as master of the second IDE > > controller. Everything looks fine until the system tries to mount the > > root partition and can't find it, so it panics. I've tried breaking the > > boot process and setting num_ide_disks and rootdev to no avail. > > > > Here is the dmesg and error messages: > > [snip] > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > Thanks to all that answered! --------------------- Santiago Perez-Cacho sanper@pcfa.es.eu.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message