From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 20:06:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05041 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:06:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04750 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:05:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA00391; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:05:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:05:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: David Petrou cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: Panic during boot on a new installation In-Reply-To: <199802110221.SAA03834@hub.freebsd.org> 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 Tue, 10 Feb 1998, David Petrou wrote: > Hi. I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE on a P6 but am having > problems fully booting the machine. I checked the FAQ and handbook > and couldn't find anything relevant and I'd appreciate any help on > this. > > This machine has an IDE drive and a SCSI drive. I used a boot disk > and a CDROM to put FreeBSD on the SCSI drive. I put a boot manager on > both drives. > > When I boot the machine, I tell the boot manager to go to the SCSI > drive. Then another boot manager pops up and I tell it to boot > FreeBSD. (As an aside, is there a way to have only one boot manager?) Remove the boot manager from the SCSI drive. > Now I hit enter at the boot prompt, causing the system to load the > kernel from 1:sd(1,a). The kernel starts running, probing devices, > etc. Everything looks good until it tries to change the root device. > The system then panics with "Can't change root device to sd1a" (or > something of that nature). You need to wire down your devices. Pull unnecesary devices from your SCSI chain and build a new kernel with the SCSI IDs wired to the correct devices. See /sys/i386/conf/LINT for details. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message