Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 16:11:45 -1000 From: "Peter Stubbs" <peters@staidan.qld.edu.au> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting from primary wd on wdc1 Message-ID: <5ECF6CD2A38@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au>
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On 18 Feb 96 at 21:36, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Peter Stubbs wrote: > > > > > At boot time it claims it's booting from wd1a, yet at the drive > > detection time it finds the drive & calls it wd2. Then panics when > > it can't mount root. > > Can you boot from a floppy OK using > > Boot: wd(2,a)/kernel ? > No I haven't tried this, but I don't think it'll work since at boot time it thinks it's on wd(1,a)! > You are probably stuck on that method for life since most BIOSs > can't boot off the second controller without help. > It boots OK, it just won't mount root. Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS. ph +61-07-3379-9911, fax +61-07-3379-9432
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