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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Unable to Boot From New BSD Drive
Date: 1 Sep 1996 14:36:48 GMT
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Chris Scarff <trackster@augusta.net> wrote:

>         1.2 gig HD (Western Digital) [PRIMARY - DOS/Windoze]
>         245 Meg HD all for BSD [SECONDARY - FreeBSD].

>         I've tried 0:wdc1a and 0:wdc0b and all types of variations. 

1:wd(1,a)/kernel  if your second disk is primary controller/slave.
1:wd(2,a)/kernel  if your second disk is secondary controller/master.

(You didn't write what it is exactly.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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