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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting 3rd hard drive
Date: 31 Jan 1997 22:25:00 GMT
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John Nistler <nistler@millcomm.com> wrote:

> IDE controller 1
> disk 1 (bios says Hard disk 0)(bsd wd0)
> disk 2 (bios shows CD-ROM    )(bsd wcd0)
> IDE controller 2
> disk 3 (bios says Hard disk 1)(bsd wd2)
> disk 4 (bios says Hard disk 2)(bsd wd3)(This is the one I want to boot)
> 
> I thought maybe
> 
> 2:wd(3,a)/kernel
> 
> but this does not work.

That should be it, indeed.  Are you sure your BIOS is even willing to
map drive 0x82 (``Hard disk 2'')?

What's the error message?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)