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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!newsfeeds.sol.net!news-xfer.netaxs.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!worldnet.att.net!newsadm From: "Paul A. Sakievich" <sakman@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD with two hard drives Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 00:10:09 -0500 Organization: CSC Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32EAE731.2447@worldnet.att.net> References: <32EA5951.14C5@pgmstr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.146.221.70 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02E (Win95; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34064 Artin Safari wrote: > > I have two hard drives. I would like to dedicate the first one to > Windows95 and the second to FreeBSD. I've gone through a few > installations but I can't seem to be able to boot BSD. After the > installation procedure is completed, I reboot, choose FreeBSD from the > boot manager. The booting process begins but at the end I get a message > indicating that root could not be mounted. > > When installing I specified FreeBSD to be installed on the second hard > drive and the boot manager on the first one. > > Help me. What can I do? > > Artin Your root partition of FreeBSD must reside _within_ the first 1024 cylinders of your first drive (that is, the entire / partition must end within about 500MB of your drive). At least, with most BIOSes this is true. A way around this is to use a boot floppy to load FreeBSD. - Paul