Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 20:58:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Root on secondary master IDE drive Message-ID: <199706270058.UAA20895@townhouse.dyn.ml.org>
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I helped to setup FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a friend's computer today. It has Windows on wd0, no wd1, and FreeBSD on wd2. We can boot FreeBSD from the boot prompt using: 1:wd(2,a)/kernel Then everything's fine. In order to make the root device wd2a permanently, I did the obvious: config kernel root on wd2 I have confirmed that config parsed it correctly, because in the compile directory we have a swapkernel.c with: dev_t rootdev = makedev(0, 0x00000010); /* wd2a */ However, on booting the new kernel (yes, it is the new kernel) tries to mount wd1a, which doesn't exist. Obviously, it panics. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Think locally, act globally.
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