From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 16 06:23:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA28232 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 06:23:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from horton.iaces.com (root@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA28225 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 06:23:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from proot@iaces.com) Received: from fievel (client1.iaces.com [204.147.87.119]) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA23532; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:23:38 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3446158F.E229E1B2@iaces.com> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:24:31 -0500 From: Paul Root X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: felix@royal.net CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot mount / X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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"