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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!news-rocq.inria.fr!irisa.fr!sthibaul From: sthibaul@irisa.fr (Scott Thibault) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help installing with two EIDE controllers Date: 18 Oct 1995 13:54:19 GMT Organization: IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, FRANCE Lines: 28 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4630ub$7hp@news.irisa.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: urk.irisa.fr There have been many similar questions about this, but I don't seem to have the right answer yet. I have a system with 2 EIDE controllers on it with one 1.2GB drive on the first controller and a .5Gb drive and CD-ROM on the second controller. I tried many times to install it on the 1.2Gb drive on a partition after my Win95 partition with no success. Aparently, because the root fs must be on a cylinder #<1024. Ok, so I move to the second disk. Currently, I have the root fs of FreeBSD installed on a cyl.<1024 on the second drive and the swap and /usr in a partition on the first drive at a cyl.>1024. Although, booteasy could not boot of the second drive, I was able to get FreeBSD to boot from the second disk using os-bs 2.0 BETA. However, once the kernel is loaded the system panics because it can't mount the root file system on wd1a. So, whats the problem here? The parition on the second drive is not the first partition on that drive, in case that matters. So, the over all system looks something like this: wd0s1 Win95 wd0s2? swap wd0s2? /usr wd1s1 DOS wd1s2a / Any ideas? Is there a problem with the slices? According to the compatibility rules I read ,the device wd1a (which the kernel is trying to mount) should be mapped to wd1s2a in my system because that is the first FreeBSD slice on that drive, so this should be ok. --Scott Thibault