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From: Sridhar Krishnan <skrishna@cisco.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Boot Manager/ BSD on second disk (fwd)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:05:28 -0700
Organization: cisco Systems, Incorporated
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To: questions@freebsd.org, support@cdrom.com
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Hi BSD'ers,

This is in response to my earlier posting re: booting FreeBSD off the 
second hard disk. 

I have not recvd. much any solutions thus far. When I re-installed the 
whole thing again, I got a message "root system is read-only" in a 
dialog-box. Does anybody know what this means ?
 
What I have found is the following: 

- If I install the BootEasy (during the sysinstall), the MBR is put on the
boot area of the second disk (because FreeBSD is on second disk ?). I
changed BIOS to look at second disk first for booting purposes, and I got
the F1- dos, F2- BSD prompt. F2 would boot fine from the hard disk but
would error with a

panic: error in root (I don't recall the exact string). 

I have to try to use the fixit floppy to see if I can fsck the root system.

I tried several options on the BIOS to "enable/disable" parameter 
mapping etc. 

- The install diskette has an option to change the root file system at 
the Boot: prompt. I tried -a flag, but it did not seem to work.


Help will be greatly appreciated!

TIA,
Sridhar Krishnan