From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 13:57:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E046119BA for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:38:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id WAA27882; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:16:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199902240316.WAA27882@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: ERROR 22: PANIC: CANNOT MOUNT ROOT (2) In-Reply-To: <19990223142535.TURJ14824.mail.rdc1.on.home.com@cs553774-a> from Victor Cheung at "Feb 23, 99 09:26:49 am" To: vcheung@canada.com (Victor Cheung) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:16:08 -0500 (EST) Cc: marcus@miami.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Victor Cheung wrote, > Hi, thanks for your help! Your suggestion sounds great but how do I create > this loader.rc file when I can't even boot into the unix OS? Is there a > way to create/edit this loader.rc file without first having to boot > successfully into FreeBSD? Sorry, but I'm kinda new to this.. If it is a problem with the bootstrapper finding your partition, you can tell BootEasy where to look at the 'boot:' prompt. If you did not install BootEasy as your bootstrap, boot off of a FreeBSD bootfloppy. At the boot prompt, I believe you would specify the secondary slave IDE drive as (someone catch me if I mess it up), 1:wd(3,a) This should boot the kernel, then you can make the modifications suggested. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message