Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 00:10:42 +0200 From: "Felipe Lopez Lopez" <FELSYS@santandersupernet.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: PANIC: cannot mount root Message-ID: <001701bd9fbd$311161e0$385135c3@FELSYS>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi, I am Felipe from Spain. I have FreeBSD, release 2.2.5 ( 4 CDROM), Tue Oct 21 but it panics when I boot after the install process. I get "PANIC: cannot mount root". I have a AMD K6 200 MHz, 32 MB RAM, CDROM 16x, Sound Blaster 16 and 2 hard disks (3 MB and 1.2 MB respectively). My BIOS is Award Modular BIOS w4.51PG When my computer boots, I can read: HDD Primary Master - QUANTUM FIREWALL ST 3.2A HDD Primary Slave Master - None HDD Secondary Master - Seagate Technology HDD Secondary Master Slave - CRD 8160 B In the first disk I have two DOS partitions (C and D) with Windows95 installed in C. When I choose booting from the second hard disk (Seagate) where FreeBSD has been installed: . . . FreeBSD 2.2.5 Tue Oct 21 ... . . . boot: . (if I type any command at this point, the system does not recognize them, for example -v, and it loops for ever till I reset the computer). . . . wdc0:unit0(wd0) <QUANTUM FIREWALL ST3.2A> wd0: 3079 MB . . . wdc1: unit0(wd2) <Seagate Technology ... > wd2: 1221 MB . . . wdc1: unit1(atapi) <CRD-8160 B /1.07> . . . changing root device to wd1a PANIC: cannot mount root I should tell you that in the install process I choose the second disk (wd2 - Seagate) to install FreeBSD with this distribution: Disk name: wd2 Disk Geometry: 620 cyls/64 heads/63 sectors = 2499840 sectors offset size end Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62 ------- 6 unused 0 63 2499777 2499839 wd2s1 3 freebsd 165 CA 2499840 2016 2501855 ------- 6 unused 0 Another screen: Part Mount Size wd2s1a / 40 MB wd2s1b swap 128 MB SWAP wd2s1e /var 40 MB wd2s1f /usr 1012 MB I choose to have MBR in both disks (wd0 and wd2) The installation goes OK and when I try to boot I get the message of PANIC. Could you help me somehow ? I have another doubt: when I am setting a new user in the install process, the system does not recognize bash as shell, only bin/csh (or something like that), why? I look forward hearing from you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?001701bd9fbd$311161e0$385135c3>