From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 11 10:41:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA13873 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:41:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfw-ix10.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix10.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA13867 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:41:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tensbum (col-oh1-15.ix.netcom.com [199.183.200.47]) by dfw-ix10.ix.netcom.com (8.6.13/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA05126; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:40:00 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0b35.32.19961011133957.00b5cd78@ix.netcom.com> X-Sender: tensbum@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0b35 (32) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 13:40:01 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Michael P. Deslippe" Subject: Next Problem Cc: Michael Smith Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, in the continuing saga of my first Unix/FreeBSD setup, I found the problem with invalid argument (22) It turns out that to load from a DOS partition, it must be a PRIMARY DOS partition. Extended DOS Partitions won't mount. Now I have everything loaded and got the congratulations (spelled congradulations on the screen) window. I answered, said and did what I needed to do to get through the post-install prompts, not really adding anything. I added a boot manager, because the default one wouldn't come up. Running bootinst from the tools directory gave me a working ability to boot off the second drive. Now it loads all the way to the end, then says panic: can't mount root rebooting in 15 seconds and I get an endless loop of reboots. ALT-F2 doesn't appear to work here, and neither does scroll lock, so I can't see what's wrong. Disk one boots up Windows 95 just fine (evidenced by the fact I'm writing this). How should I proceed (help PuhLeease! I'm running out of hair to putt out :->) If God's your co-pilot, switch seats! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Michael P. Deslippe | People who can view their environment and not The Christian Advisor | see intelligent design, can't be regarded Galloway, Ohio | intelligently! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ God will not forgive your sins in Heaven, for He already forgave them at the cross!