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From: icedragon@eotd.com
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: panic: cannot mount root - on boot, when FreeBSD on second BIOS Drive
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>Number:         3086
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       panic: cannot mount root - on boot, when FreeBSD on second BIOS Drive
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          support
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Mar 24 15:40:01 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Sat Aug 23 14:57:02 MEST 1997
>Last-Modified:  Sat Aug 23 14:57:16 MEST 1997
>Originator:     Matt Todd
>Release:        2.2
>Organization:
White Dragon Networks
>Environment:
Could not get BSD to boot.
>Description:
I have FreeBSD on a partition on my second IDE drive on my system - 
it cannot mount root changing root device to wd1a (which I believe
is the correct device...) -- I have a 1mb freebsd partition on the
first IDE drive of my system just so I can get the boot dialogue (no
room for other partitions on that drive...) 
>How-To-Repeat:
Install FreeBSD to a second (BIOS) physical drive.
>Fix:
none.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: icedragon@eotd.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/3086: panic: cannot mount root - on boot, when FreeBSD on second BIOS Drive
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 01:11:18 +0100

 As icedragon@eotd.com wrote:
 
 > I have FreeBSD on a partition on my second IDE drive on my system - 
 > it cannot mount root changing root device to wd1a (which I believe
 > is the correct device...)
 
 It ain't the correct device.  Most likely, your second IDE drive is
 the first drive on the second controller (with the second drive on the
 first controller missing).  Use
 
 	1:wd(2,a)/kernel
 
 to boot.
 
 -- 
 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. ;-)
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: joerg 
State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 23 14:57:02 MEST 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
Usage error. 
>Unformatted:
