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Message-ID: <339228CD.2930@astral.magic.ca> Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 21:58:37 -0400 From: Marty Goldgrub <mgold@astral.magic.ca> Organization: Boardmaster X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help with two IDE & two SCSI dirives Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.236.84.199 Lines: 48 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!mongol.sasknet.sk.ca!dragon.sk.sympatico.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!news.total.net!205.236.84.199 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42028 Any help would do I am running on a p-120 with 32megs of ram, primary master eide dirive- maxtor 720 meg Hard drive, primary slave - 850 maxtor, secondary master eide tosiba 12x cd-rom. Adaptech 2940 controler with figitsu 320 scsi 1 HD, hitachi 720 scsi 1HD and an exobyte 8200 8 mm tape drive. Video is an ATI 3d expression on a sony 15sf monitor. I am using the partition manager that can with OS2 warp, I think it is partition magic. Works well, allows me to boot from any drive :-). I am using the 720 meg SCSI dive which maps to my fourth drive on the machine. When I am in the Fdisk that comes with BSD I allocate all of the drive for BSD and I used the auto feature to set up the different slices of the partition. I used the Novice install and allowed BSD to automate the install as much as possible. I get the sucessful completion mesage at the end. But when I reboot and direct the partition manager to boot BSD it goes through all the probiing fine it just cant mount root. On my machine the drives in the Free BDS fdisk utility are wdc0 wdc1 sd0 sd1 I am trying to install to the sd1 drive with the following set up sd1s1a / sd1s1b swap sd1slc /var sd1s1e /usr sd1s2a /usr/home s1 being 499 meg and s2 139 meg so s1 is less than 512 megs. the boot manager gets to the right partition, but at the end of the boot BSD tries & fails to mount root, the lines on screen are as follows: Changing root device to sd3a panic can't mount root. I don't have a sd3 device even thought sd1 is my fourth drive. Thanks in advance for any help