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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Boot Manager/ BSD on second disk (fwd) Date: 26 Jun 1996 18:45:22 -0500 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4qsi2i$8c@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960625102840.2620D-100000@lint.cisco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sridhar Krishnan (skrishna@cisco.com) wrote: : 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 ? man mount type mount -u / The root file system is read only - until it's been fsck'd. : : 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). You'll need the error message. You should have gone into the fdisk screen for both disks on your system and written BootEasy. : 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. Type Boot: wd(1,a)/kernel at the boot prompt - that'll work (for IDE) -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....