From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 6 02:14:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA26309 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 02:14:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA26231 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 02:13:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA17660; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:15:41 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:15:41 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Cory Kempf cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing root device... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Cory Kempf wrote: > Hi All, > I am having a bit of trouble getting FreeBSD to run on my system... > > I have a DK440LX motherboard, and a SCSI disk. Using the disk images > located in , I was able to > successfully install. If I do a fixit, and mount /dev/da0a or /dev/da0s1 > on /mnt1. > > Unfortunately, when I try to boot without the floppies, I get the following > lines somewhere near where it locates my disk (sometimes it has stuff about > my disk in the middle, sometimes before. seems to depend on the boot > command): > > Considering FFS root f/s. > changing root devide to wd0a > error 6: panic: cannot mount root (2) My guess is you also have an ATAPI CD-ROM as master on first channel of wdc0, or some other (bootable) device - this combination (to a reason unknown to me - is it MB fault or someone elses...) results in bootloader wrongly assuming it's being booted off the wd0. You can defeat it by specifying -a flag, and then responsing with 'da0' to the prompt asking which device to mount on root. This is only a workaround, not a solution - I'll have to investigate it more before giving you any other advice... Andrzej Bialecki ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@warman.org.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message