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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!ns.saard.net!hakea.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!mindspring!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD with two hard drives Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 08:02:42 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 37 Message-ID: <32EB55F2.41C67EA6@mindspring.com> References: <32EA5951.14C5@pgmstr.com> <32EAE731.2447@worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: user-168-121-25-139.dialup.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 26 Jan 1997 13:02:45 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34520 Paul A. Sakievich wrote: > > 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 Say I am running WinNT on disk 1 and FBSD current on disk 2. Both disks are SCSI. I do not have anything but OSBS and WinNT installed on disk 1. So unless there is something different about IDE drives, it should work for you. Ron -- **************************************************************************** Ron Bolin rlb@mindspring.com, http://www.mindspring.com/~rlb/ GSU: gs01rlb@panther.gsu.edu matrlbx@indigo4.cs.gsu.edu Home: 770-992-8877 ****************************************************************************