From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jul 19 06:19:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA14592 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 06:19:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from crap.31337.net (crap.31337.net [194.109.86.254] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA14586 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 06:19:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alexlh@funk.org) Received: from nose (nose.funk.org [194.109.86.229]) by crap.31337.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA11716 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 14:28:39 GMT (envelope-from alexlh@funk.org) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980719151844.00899eb0@crap.31337.net> X-Sender: alexlh@crap.31337.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 15:18:44 +0200 To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG From: Alex Le Heux Subject: Bug in sysinstall? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, A friend of mine just phoned me after I had given him my 2.2.6 cd to install FreeBSD (finally, took me long enough to convince him to try it), telling me that the install went fine, but it couldn't boot. It died with the message "Cannot mount root" This had never happened to me in all the numerous times I've installed FreeBSD, so I was a bit suprised. He hadn't done any funy stuff to /etc/fstab or anything, as this was his first boot after the install. As it turned out, he had en IDE cdrom as master on wdc0, and his harddisk as slave. Swapping them around, so the hd was master fixed it. Is this a bug or a hidden feature? Alex --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WE ARE STALLMAN OF GNU RESISTANCE IS FUTILE YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED ALL YOUR CODE WILL SERVE THE COLLECTIVE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message