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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!pipex-sa.net!hole.news.pipex.net!pipex!bowl.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!pacbell.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!depot.mro.dec.com!ruby.mro.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!not-for-mail From: grohn@ozy.dec.com (Jim Grohn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Booting from 2nd disk Date: 27 Oct 1996 20:08:39 GMT Organization: digital Lines: 22 Message-ID: <550fg7$l2j$1@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ozyd13-p3.ozy.dec.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ 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?