Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 13:39:22 -0600 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: "Havener, Kevin" <Kevin.Havener@afccc.af.mil>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Booting from 2nd disk Message-ID: <029f01bf6e7e$5f1e0200$020a0a0a@megared.net.mx> References: <E55BC5FC7AA9D211A00F00104B07D7DB4B6692@thor.afccc.af.mil>
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Hi,
Try with "set root_disk_unit=2" without the quotes, and put this in
"/boot/loader.rc" for keep booting the system without typing it again.
Have Fun...
Ales
----- Original Message -----
From: Havener, Kevin <Kevin.Havener@afccc.af.mil>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 11:10 AM
Subject: Booting from 2nd disk
> In The Complete FreeBSD, 3rd ed, p102, Lehey says about the message:
> "panic: cannot mount root"
>
> "You have two IDE disks, each configured as the master on their respective
> IDE busses ... FreeBSD is on the second disk" Describes my situation
> perfectly.
>
> "To tell the loader how to find it, stop it before booting and enter:
> <disk1s1a:> boot 1:wd(2,a)kernel" This works.
>
> However, he goes on to say: "You don't have to do this every time: once
> you have determined the correct values to use, put the command exactly as
> you would have typed it in the file /boot.config. FreeBSD uses the
> contents of this file as the default response to the boot: prompt." Does
> anyone know why this wouldn't work as Lehey describes.
>
> I start my boot from LILO, interrupt it immediately after I select FreeBSD
> from my available OSes, type the command, except I just type the
> "1:wd(2,a)kernel" without the "boot". It doesn't seem to like the "boot"
> part.
> I have tried it both ways in the boot.config file with no luck. I've been
> unable to completely automate the booting of FreeBSD, is there something
> else I'm missing? BTW, I've not had any luck doing this with either 3.2R
or
>
> 3.4R, maybe the book describes an earlier boot process?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
>
>
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