Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:24:31 -0500 From: Paul Root <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: felix@royal.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot mount / Message-ID: <3446158F.E229E1B2@iaces.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971016130446.540B-100000@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk>
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Aled Treharne wrote:
2 hard disks - 2.1G Fujitsu (Master) and 1.2G (Slave). I
> have windoze 95 on the fujitsu and FBSD has the other to itself,
> Problem.
> I tried booting into freebsd by specifying 1:wd(0,a)/kernel from the boot
> floppy. All goes fine until it tries to mount the root partition. There
> are no error messages during the bootup process until it reaches the
> point where it tries to mount the root partition. Then it just says
>
> Panic: cannot mount root
Ok, I've never done this, so I should probably just let Doug answer
this,
but...
I think you're over thinking the sitution. Since you installed FreeBSD
on the
second disk, it's device should be wd1 not wd0. So wouldn't the boot
command
be:
1:wd(1,a)kernel
And since 1 and 1 are the same, you should only need:
wd(1,a)kernel
which should be the default.
Or am I missing something?
Paul.
----
I don't know why I go looking for something only the
blind can see in the middle of the night."
-- Billy Joel "Middle of the Night"
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