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From: Iain Catto <vx02@dial.pipex.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Boot filesystem problem
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:33:05 -0800
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I have installed 2.1.6 on a second ide hard disk (wd2). When I try
to boot FreeBSD the system panics as it cant find the root filesystem
on wd1a. If I manually specify the correct location of the filesystem
as wd2a at the boot prompt everything works ok.

How do I get the system to boot from wd2a automatically? I have tried 
rebuilding a kernel with wd2 specified as the root filesystm location.

I would appreciate any help :)

Iain Catto