Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 11:45:18 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: JBradley@ucsd.edu Cc: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: cannot mount root Message-ID: <344C79AE.571@barcode.co.il> References: <199710210651.XAA10415@sdcc14.ucsd.edu>
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JBradley@ucsd.edu wrote: > > To whomever wants to help: > > After a minimal install of BSD, it fails to boot correctly. Here is the > setup. > > 2 disk system > 1st disk is pure DOS and booteasy > 2nd has 32M DOS partition at front and FreeBSD slice on remainder. > Disk 1 shows up as wd0 > Disk 2 shows up as wd2 (that's wd2, NOT wd1). > 48 M ram. (I saw the similar problem in errata that involver 48M machines > and failure to mount fd0 as root during install. I tried the solution > given: I went into config and set "iosize npx0 32768" but it didn't work.) > > When the kernel loads, all devices are probed correctly. When system > attempts "changing root device to wd1a," the system panics with "panic: > cannot mount root" and restarts. The odd thing is that, during setup, the > root "/" partition of the FreeBSD slice showed wd2s2a, and the drives were > wd0 and wd2. It seems like the kernel is looking to wd1 for the root. How > can I change this to get it to boot properly? > > Thanks, > Justin Bradley Give the line 1:wd(2,a)/kernel at the Boot: prompt. You can use /boot.config to make that change permanent (assuming you have a recent enough version, which you do not specify). Nadav
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