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Date:      Sun, 03 Aug 1997 11:48:50 +0300
From:      Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To:        Chad Monteith <beowulf@sns-access.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, chad@pobox.com
Subject:   Re: Boot panics
Message-ID:  <33E445F2.6FF7@barcode.co.il>
References:  <Pine.SOL.3.95.970802005112.3090A-100000@pickwick>

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Chad Monteith wrote:
> 
> Greetings:
>         I successfully installed FreeBSD on one of my HD's, but when it
> boots it panics becuase it cannot find the root partition.  Here is my
> setup:
>         on IDE Port 0: Master IDE Drive (WD), Slave IDE CDROM
>         on IDE Port 1: IDE Drive (WD) with FreeBSD on it
> The system reports the BSD Drive as wd2 (Which it is).  I have tried
> placing these parameters at boot time: wd(2,a)kernel
> I know it can reasd the drive, as the boot can read the root partition,
> and it runs all the setup config programs, it just does not boot the root
> partition.
> Any and all assistance will be greatly appreciated.
> Please CC a response to chad@pobox.com or I may not get it!
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> -Chad

Try giving the line:

1:wd(2,a)/kernel

at the Boot: prompt.

Nadav



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