From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 14:07:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA11887 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:07:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mom.hooked.net (root@mom.hooked.net [206.80.6.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA11880 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:07:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hooked.net.hooked.net (webe-9.ppp.hooked.net [206.80.9.9]) by mom.hooked.net (8.8.0/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA06091 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:07:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <326BE4B2.37DF@hooked.net> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:01:38 -0700 From: Philip Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3 EIDE Hd's and a 6x-TEAC CD-ROM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have installed FreeBSD, to my knowledge, correctly, on my computer. It can't boot up however because of a cannot mount root problem. I have gone through many of the messages under this criteria to see if they could help me, but to no avail so far. I'm wondering if it might be because I have 3 IDE Hd's instead of the usual 2... My hd's load up in this order HardDrive 0 WDC (Serial number) HardDrive 1 WDC (serial number) CD-ROM 1 (some nonsense) HardDrive 2 WDC (serial number) Would this strange array of hd's in an eide atmosphere confuse bsd? or am I, more likely, just being a fool and am not typing the correct string at the boot prompt? i have tried wd(3,a)/kernel wd(3,a)kernel 3:wd(3,a)/kernel 3:wd(3,a)kernel and here's the thing, if i type wd(2,a)/kernel it starts the boot sequence up just fine until it gets to that panic: cannot mount root error message Please help! I don't want to be an Win95/NT/Dos user only! I'd love to learn how to function under a unix type enviroment... besides i'm getting sick of windows Thanks for any help anyone can give me in advance! --Phil