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From: abs@cs.sun.ac.za (Andre Skarzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: FreeBSD hangs o n boot!
Date: 22 Nov 1993 06:53:24 GMT
Organization: University of Stellenbosch
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Byron Goodman (matrix@noc.unt.edu) wrote:
: I installed FreeBSD on a 386DX/33 with 20MB of RAM.  I have 2 hard drives. A
: Conner 205MB and a Maxtor 345MB drive.  Both of them are IDE drives.  The
: 205 drive is master and the 345 is slave.  I have installed 4K partitions
: on the 205 and 8K on the 345MB.  When I boot the computer is hangs when mounting
: the root (/) partition.  It just sits there.  I can boot it in single user and
: and the type exit and let it boot into multi-user and it comes up.  Boot from
: a warmboot or cold boot it will not boot multiuser.  I need help please!  An
: ideas?  

Make sure that you have built a kernel with wd1 included as swap, so that the
2nd harddisk gets initialized. You don't need a swap on wd1, but you need the
kernel to "kick" the drive.

Also, I found that the entries in the /etc/fstab are important. I have not got
my machine near me so I can not check, but something like the following:

/dev/wd0a     /       ufs rw   1 1
/dev/wd0e     /usr    ufs rw   1 2
/dev/wd1a     /home   ufs rw   1 2
/dev/wd1e     /u      ufs rw   1 2


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