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From: John Amason <jamason@neosoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc
Subject: Installing FreeBSD problem - 2nd SCSI disk!
Date: Sun, 05 May 1996 09:21:54 -0500
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I have a Pentium PC with a 2GB IDE disk and a 1GB SCSI disk. The
2 GB disk has bootable partitions for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95/ NT.

I am using System Commander to manage the MBR.

The install seems to proceed ok, but if I select BSD upon reboot of the 
system after the the install,  the boot sequence progresses to the point
of trying to mount the root partition then fails with a message 
saying the root partition cannot be mounted.

What is the probable cause of the problem? I suspect that not being 
disk1 to be the likely cause. Everyone I know has installed FreeBSD
on disk1.


Thanks,

John