On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > set root_disk_unit=2 >
That did it!!! FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT is now happily running on the master disk of the second IDE controller. > > Hello!! > > I'm running 4.0-CURRENT cvsupped last Friday. I've tried to move my > > installation from a partition on the first disk of the first IDE > > controller to a new disk that I've placed as master of the second IDE > > controller. Everything looks fine until the system tries to mount the > > root partition and can't find it, so it panics. I've tried breaking the > > boot process and setting num_ide_disks and rootdev to no avail. > > > > Here is the dmesg and error messages: > > [snip] > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com > > Thanks to all that answered! --------------------- Santiago Perez-Cacho san...@pcfa.es.eu.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
