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#! rnews 1087 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.alpha.net!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.u.washington.edu!tzs From: tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Cannot mount root??? Date: 9 Jun 1995 09:24:07 GMT Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of ~'95 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3r93vn$s2t@nntp5.u.washington.edu> References: <3qhsc9$fgd@kettle.magna.com.au> <3r0c4a$d3g@kettle.magna.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: nntp4.u.washington.edu Kevin Tucker <kevin@magna.com.au> wrote: >Peter da Silva sent me the answer by email, probably >to save me the public embarrassment, (thanks Peter) it >was booting as "sd(1,a)" instead of "hd(1,a)". >It's been a long time since I last used unix, I must >have forgotten you are allowed to think while installing >software. Since what you first tried is exactly what the instructions tell you to do when installing on the second drive, I see no reason for you to be embarrassed when it didn't work. --Tim Smith