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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Can boot 2.2.1-R
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On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Anthony Hill wrote:

> 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

Your master/slave jumpers are wrong, cable is bad or disconnected, or
second disk is hosed.  Check your connectors and try again.   

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major