From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 22 8:14:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1-gui.server.ntli.net (mail1-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.222.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ED3314CF2 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 08:14:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip.joseph@net.ntl.com) Received: from fred ([212.250.184.127]) by mail1-gui.server.ntli.net (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO203a ID# 0-33929U70000L2S50) with SMTP id AAA17435 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 16:00:11 +0100 Message-ID: <000501bf050c$d8a98d00$7fb8fad4@fred> From: "Phil Joseph" To: Subject: Cant get to a boot prompt to change disk ID's Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 16:12:06 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 1 X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My FreeBSD is installed to my second IDE drive (on primary IDE controller). WHen it tries to boot I get the message Changing root device to wd0s2a Err22 Panic Can't mount root. I've found the soultion in your FAQ At the Boot: prompt, enter 1:wd(2,a)kernel ............. Just one little question :-) HOW DO I GET TO THE BOOT PROMPT? many thanks Phil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message