Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 22:00:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca (Antonio Bemfica) Cc: lai@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation on ide#2 Message-ID: <199705252000.WAA00786@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970525150812.8977A-100000@militzer.me.tuns.ca> from Antonio Bemfica at "May 25, 97 03:26:55 pm"
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> On Fri, 23 May 1997, Creighton K L Lai wrote: > > > I was wondering if I can use my other hard drive (IDE bus#2 master > > which should be /dev/wd3) to install. Since my C drive is primarily used > > I'll relate my experience, even if it wasn't a totally successfull one. > > I wanted to do just the same thing, but the installation floppy (and the > GENERIC kernel later on) recognized the drives as wd0 for the first IDE, > the Win95 one, and wd2 for the second one (I assume the slave on the first > controller would be wd1 and the slave on the second would be wd3). > > I installed Boot Manager on both drives and I could switch between drives > with no problems, except that I could never get the kernel to boot from > wd2, even after compiling a custom kernel with the line: > > config kernel root on wd2 > > I had to type > > 1:wd(2,a)/kernel > > or some such thing everytime, or it would "panic" when it didn't find wd1 > (which of course is not there). Changing the devices on the fstab file > didn't work either....) Did you try to swap the disk names `wd1' and `wd2' in your kernel configuration file, i. e. give the first disc on the second controller the name `wd1''? This should solve your problem. Wolfgang
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