Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 15:32:20 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: BRIAN FONG <fwkh@pc.jaring.my>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980218153127.8143A-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980218120415.13877B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Instead of hard coding the root on what in my kernel, I use the boot.config file in / to specify the optional boot options for my box. Joe Clarke On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, BRIAN FONG wrote: > > > I choose F2 and it boots and tell me cant find boot.config and cant find > > boot.help. Afterwhich it will also tell em it cant find kernel. > > The first two is OK, the third one is bad. > > If you get the message: > panic: Cannot mount root > > At the end of the probe sequence you should either: > 1. Have the line: > config kernel root on wd2 > > in your kernel config, > OR: > > 2. Rename the second disk to wd1 in the kernel config (comment out the > original wd1 line and change the wd2 line to read wd1, leaving all other > parameters unchanged). > > > I cant find any suggestion on the web pages so i hope you can help. > > What? You missed the mail archives; I've posted that countless times! > > > </fontfamily></bold><smaller>#9.02, 9TH FLR, MENARA > > HTMLized mail sent to Internet mailing lists is genreally considered bad > form. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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