From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 06:57:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA07961 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 06:57:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dns.phelpsd.com (dns.phelpsd.com [198.176.208.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA07956 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 06:57:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from map@primenet.com) Received: by dns.phelpsd.com; id HAA17096; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:56:51 -0700 (MST) Received: from inetdev.secs.phelpsd.com(198.22.162.153) by dns.phelpsd.com via smap (4.1) id xma016805; Thu, 19 Nov 98 07:56:11 -0700 Received: from primenet.com ([198.22.162.156]) by inetdev.secs.phelpsd.com with ESMTP (8.7.1/8.7.1) id HAA16169; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:56:09 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <36543178.57DBD7D8@primenet.com> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:55:52 -0700 From: "Mark A. Pitman" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dg@root.com CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "cant mount root" error after install (with a single SCSI HD) References: <199811190642.WAA22456@root.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Greenman wrote: > >I am able to install FreeBSD 2.2.7 successfully, however when I reboot, > >I get the "panic: cant mount root" error. I am using a single SCSI HD > >on an NCR53c810 PCI controller. I have noticed that when the system > >boots, the kernel does not probe or detect any of the PCI devices. The > >boot floppy probes the PCI devices fine (I guess that's pretty obvious, > >since it installed). Anybody know what I can do to fix this? I'm new to > > That's a pretty strange problem - the first one I've heard like that. I > can't think of anything off hand that would cause the installed kernel to > ignore your PCI bus when the one on the install floppy sees it just fine. As > a test, can you try to install 3.0? > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > Yes, I can download 3.0, but being new to FreeBSD is that a good idea? I had heard it would be better to stick with the stable 2.2.7 version. If 3.0 is fine for general home use, then that's great, i'll do it! Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message