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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting 3rd hard drive Date: 31 Jan 1997 22:25:00 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5ctrfs$3ps@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32E69710.167EB0E7@millcomm.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34979 John Nistler <nistler@millcomm.com> wrote: > IDE controller 1 > disk 1 (bios says Hard disk 0)(bsd wd0) > disk 2 (bios shows CD-ROM )(bsd wcd0) > IDE controller 2 > disk 3 (bios says Hard disk 1)(bsd wd2) > disk 4 (bios says Hard disk 2)(bsd wd3)(This is the one I want to boot) > > I thought maybe > > 2:wd(3,a)/kernel > > but this does not work. That should be it, indeed. Are you sure your BIOS is even willing to map drive 0x82 (``Hard disk 2'')? What's the error message? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)