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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 21:34:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Ping Mai <ping@stepnet.com>
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Subject: Re: installing on 2nd disk
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On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Ping Mai wrote:

> one of my bsd systems has an ide and a scsi disk.
> scsi drive is the designated bsd disk.
> Installation from the walnut creek 2.1.5 cdrom would
> go ok but when the system reboots after installation,
> kernel would panic as it tries to mount root to
> wd0s1.
> 
> only way i can get around this problem is to compile
> a kernel on another system with "root sd0" in the
> config file.  and boot the ide/scsi system with
> new kernel.
> 
> is there any other way to get around this problem?

Yank the IDE drive and recompile.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major