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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!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ux9.cso.uiuc.edu!not-for-mail From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (igor vladimirovich roshchin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD with two hard drives Date: 29 Jan 1997 02:59:02 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 51 Message-ID: <5cmedm$5ql@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <32EA5951.14C5@pgmstr.com> <32EC22F1.61A5@concentric.net> <32ED5D1B.167EB0E7@mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ux9.cso.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34673 Ron Bolin (rlb@mindspring.com) wrote: : Customer Support 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 : > : > I too have two scsi hard drives. My first drive is for windows95 and : > the second drive is for FreeBSD. I've gone through the installations : > and everything seems to install correctly but when I reboot after the : > installation I do not even get the boot manager, it goes directly into : > Windows95. What did I do wrong during the installation. Is the : > bootmanager to go onto my drive with windows95? Can anyone help me? : Get OSBS and use that as your boot manager. : Ron : -- It seems to me that the author of the original posting meens the problem I and some other people had (and still have). This problem was just addressed in another thread. (Subj: First boot after install, cant mount root ) When the kernel starts mounting the root partition, it tryes to mount wd1a, while the actual device it boots from is wd2 (the first disk on the second controller). I, myself, was not able to boot with 1:wd(2,a)/kernel it couldn't start booting this way at all So, you can try that, or, as it is suggested in the aforementioned thread, recompile the bootstrap. I didn't havea chance to try that yet. IgoR aka StR