From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 5 22:09:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA05878 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 22:09:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from enigami.com (enigami.com [208.140.182.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA05859 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 22:09:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ckempf@enigami.com) Received: from [208.140.182.45] (symphony.enigami.com [208.140.182.45]) by enigami.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA05640; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 01:08:40 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: ckempfm@enigami.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980305191530.007185ec@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com> References: <3.0.3.32.19980305180558.006fe258@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 01:07:28 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Cory Kempf Subject: changing root device... Cc: abial@nask.pl Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, I am having a bit of trouble getting FreeBSD to run on my system... I have a DK440LX motherboard, and a SCSI disk. Using the disk images located in , I was able to successfully install. If I do a fixit, and mount /dev/da0a or /dev/da0s1 on /mnt1. Unfortunately, when I try to boot without the floppies, I get the following lines somewhere near where it locates my disk (sometimes it has stuff about my disk in the middle, sometimes before. seems to depend on the boot command): Considering FFS root f/s. changing root devide to wd0a error 6: panic: cannot mount root (2) I have tried specifying the boot device as '0:sd(0,a)/kernel -s' (and several variations), but that doesn't seem to help. It decompresses the kernel, so I am pretty sure it is finding it OK. So, any hints as to why it is doing this? And how to fix it? Unfortunately, I don't have a working FreeBSD system (yet) to be able to go poking around on to find it. Thanks, +C -- Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? Please read this first: Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message