Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 21:57:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Gerry McOmber <gsm1@uno.cc.geneseo.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing Root Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970905215659.7395O-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970905163328.0068581c@uno.cc.geneseo.edu>
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On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Gerry McOmber wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 on my secondary master hard disk. I have > windows95b on as my primary master. I installed the boot manager and > everything works correctly until I choose to boot on the disk with FreeBSD > on it. Everything seems to load correctly until the end where I get these > messages. > > Changing root device to wd1a > panic cannot mount root > syncing disks.....done > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds -Press a key on the console to abort. > > It will do this every time. Now if I open my computer and switch the disks > around to BSD as the primary master and the windows95 disk to the secondary > master, BSD boots right to the Login. But it hangs when trying to boot > windows95b. > Any thoughts? If you get the message: panic: Cannot mount root At the end of the probe sequence you should either: 1. Have the line: config kernel root on wd2 in your kernel config, OR: 2. Rename the second disk to wd1 in the kernel config (comment out the original wd1 line and change the wd2 line to read wd1, leaving all other parameters unchanged). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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