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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!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!mr.net!europa.clark.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!usenet From: Iain Catto <vx02@dial.pipex.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Boot filesystem problem Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:33:05 -0800 Organization: UUNet PIPEX server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNet PIPEX) Lines: 11 Message-ID: <3326F6E1.1F35@dial.pipex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: am049.du.pipex.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37001 I have installed 2.1.6 on a second ide hard disk (wd2). When I try to boot FreeBSD the system panics as it cant find the root filesystem on wd1a. If I manually specify the correct location of the filesystem as wd2a at the boot prompt everything works ok. How do I get the system to boot from wd2a automatically? I have tried rebuilding a kernel with wd2 specified as the root filesystm location. I would appreciate any help :) Iain Catto