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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!204.94.214.20!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!purdue!news.bu.edu!usenet From: "Thomas P. Skinner" <tom@compucation.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Booting second drive. Date: 27 Jan 1997 00:49:30 GMT Organization: Compucation Lines: 21 Message-ID: <01bc0bec$37a55220$64add7cc@rolling.compucation.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-75-5.bu.edu X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34510 I have two disks on my primary IDE controller. The master has two partitions, both DOS. The second drive is exclusively for Freebsd. I just can't seem to boot this drive from floppy. 1:wd(0,a)/kernel keeps saying "invalid format." If I boot the kernel from the floppy and use a fixit disk I can mount my system as it is fine at /dev/wd1a. I have tried so many combinations of things and nothing works. Making the freebsd disk the master of course works fine. I have no trouble doing boots off floppy to BSDI systems in various configurations and so I am not a novice in these issues. Any help would be appreciated. Thoms P. Skinner President Compucation www.compucation.com