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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting from 2nd disk
Date: 30 Oct 1996 16:45:01 -0000
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In article <550fg7$l2j$1@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>,
grohn@ozy.dec.com (Jim Grohn) writes:
: I've used the novice install, and put FreeBSD down on Disk 2. Put
: boot manager down on both disks. The boot manager seems to work fine, asking
: which disk I want to boot from, and then starting the OS. W95 comes up fine
: on Disk1. FreeBSD has a panic on boot, the text says
:
: (... probe info before this...)
: changing root device to sd1a
: panic: cannot mount root.
:
:
:
: From the doco I've read, sd1a is the 2nd scsi disk. I only have one
: scsi disk. Any suggestions?
It's the second BIOS disk, but the first SCSI disk. You need to boot
1:sd(0,a)/kernel
The '1' being the BIOS disk and the '0' being the zero'th SCSI disk.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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