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From: tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Cannot mount root???
Date: 9 Jun 1995 09:24:07 GMT
Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of ~'95
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Kevin Tucker <kevin@magna.com.au> wrote:
>Peter da Silva sent me the answer by email, probably
>to save me the public embarrassment, (thanks Peter) it
>was booting as "sd(1,a)" instead of "hd(1,a)".
>It's been a long time since I last used unix, I must
>have forgotten you are allowed to think while installing
>software.

Since what you first tried is exactly what the instructions
tell you to do when installing on the second drive, I see no
reason for you to be embarrassed when it didn't work.

--Tim Smith