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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.structured.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.136.149.12!wolfen.thecore.com!usenet From: sst@thecore.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD with two hard drives Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 05:55:43 GMT Organization: TechnoCore Communications, Inc. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <32f2da35.3710941@news.thecore.com> References: <32EA5951.14C5@pgmstr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ts1-53.thecore.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34606 On Sat, 25 Jan 1997 14:04:49 -0500, Artin Safari <asafari@pgmstr.com> wrote: >I have two hard drives. I would like to dedicate the first one to >Windows95 and the second to FreeBSD. I've gone through a few >installations but I can't seem to be able to boot BSD. Did you hack the boot code to explicitly list out the 2nd drive for the root filesystem ? There is a hardcoded value there, I think it's something along the lines of "wd0a' which designates the 1st drive as the bootable one. Check that out. Also, I don't know which boot manager you are using, not all allow you to boot off the 2nd disk. > After the >installation procedure is completed, I reboot, choose FreeBSD from the >boot manager. The booting process begins but at the end I get a message >indicating that root could not be mounted. > Later