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From: osprey@wwa.com (Lucas D. Adamski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting from 2nd disk
Date: 29 Oct 1996 19:52:11 GMT
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Jim Grohn (grohn@ozy.dec.com), on 27 Oct 1996 20:08:39 GMT, gushed:
{ Novice install question.
{ My config is
{ 80486, ISA bus,
{ Disk 1 - 280M IDE, used for W95
{ Disk 2 - 400M SCSI, 1540 controller, used for FreeBSD.
{ I've used the novice install, and put FreeBSD down on Disk 2. Put
{ boot manager down on both disks. The boot manager seems to work fine, asking
{ which disk I want to boot from, and then starting the OS. W95 comes up fine
{ on Disk1. FreeBSD has a panic on boot, the text says
{ (... probe info before this...)
{ changing root device to sd1a
{ panic: cannot mount root.
{ From the doco I've read, sd1a is the 2nd scsi disk. I only have one
{ scsi disk. Any suggestions?
I had a similar problem.. next time you try to boot, scroll back and see
if the kernel detected your second hard drive.. in my case it failed to
detect it. Unfortunately, the only solution I ever found without messing
with the kernel source was the swap the master and slave drives around.
//Lucas.
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