From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 2 00:59:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA10113 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 00:59:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jo.structured.net. (jo.structured.net [206.58.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA10107 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 00:59:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pickwick (pickwick.sns-access.com [206.58.0.33]) by jo.structured.net. (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA16133; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 00:59:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 00:59:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Chad Monteith X-Sender: beowulf@pickwick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: chad@pobox.com Subject: Boot panics Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings: I successfully installed FreeBSD on one of my HD's, but when it boots it panics becuase it cannot find the root partition. Here is my setup: on IDE Port 0: Master IDE Drive (WD), Slave IDE CDROM on IDE Port 1: IDE Drive (WD) with FreeBSD on it The system reports the BSD Drive as wd2 (Which it is). I have tried placing these parameters at boot time: wd(2,a)kernel I know it can reasd the drive, as the boot can read the root partition, and it runs all the setup config programs, it just does not boot the root partition. Any and all assistance will be greatly appreciated. Please CC a response to chad@pobox.com or I may not get it! Thanks for your time. -Chad