Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 08:14:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: ahill@connect.com.au (Anthony Hill) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can boot 2.2.1-R Message-ID: <199704140614.IAA13442@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970414085506.22207A-100000@indi.off.connect.com.au> from Anthony Hill at "Apr 14, 97 09:43:21 am"
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Hi, > > I tryed a ftp install of 2.2.1-R this weekend, but could not get it to bood. > It seems to boot all the way through with no horrible problems, but then > fails to mount root. > > I think it may be a harddisk detection/geometry problem. > > The motherboard is a triton3 with 2 built in IDE controllers, > The harddisks are 2 425.3 MB Western Digital caviars. (model wdac2420-00F) > > I have Win95 on the first disk and am booting FreeBSD off the second using > osbs. > > Some of the disk related boot messages I get are:- > > wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 IRQ 14 on ISA > wdc0 unit 0 (wd0): <wdc ac2420f> > wd0 405 MB (830760 sectors), 989 clys, 15 heads, 56 st, 512 b/s > wd1 size unknown unsing fake values > wd1 0MB (17 secors), 1 cyls, 1 heads, 17 st, 512 b/s > . > . > . > wd1c hard error reading fsbn 829810 > . > . > . > wd1 cannot find bad sector table (bad sector table i/o error) > wd1s1 cannot find bad sector table (bad sector table i/o error) > panic cannot mount root > The disk wd1 is the slave on the primary IDE controller. Try putting your FreeBSD disk as master on the secondary IDE controller. At the Boot: prompt enter wd(2,a)/kernel and see what happens. hope this helps Wolfgang
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