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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: installation on ide#2
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"
To: bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca (Antonio Bemfica)
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 22:00:56 +0200 (MET DST)
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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