From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 13:14:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (wya-lfd88.hotmail.com [207.82.252.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EA9C15041 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 13:14:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmcgarey@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 57930 invoked by uid 0); 1 Apr 1999 21:14:08 -0000 Message-ID: <19990401211408.57928.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 198.151.182.40 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 01 Apr 1999 13:14:04 PST X-Originating-IP: [198.151.182.40] From: "John McGarey" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installation problem Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 13:14:04 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm having trouble installing FreeBSD. I'm trying to install it on my second IDE hard drive all by itself (so there shouldn't be trouble about installing before a certain block) so there is ONLY freebsd on my second hard drive I've been able to make different install configurations work, but still I get the same error. Even with the minimal install it doesn't work. I've tried many times and I complete the installation but I keep getting the same error. 'error 6: panic: cannot mount root(2)' then it reboots. I've searched on the freebsd website, and on web boards and mailing lists. it appears that this problem is pretty common, (I have 4 ide devices, 2 HD's and one cd rom and one cd-r the hard drives are the master devices) and I've found the posted solutions for the problem (1:wd(2,a)kernel) totally ineffective on my specific problem. I've also tried many different possible variations on that command (like 1:wd(0,a)/kernel). they don't work either. I've tried a lot of different partition options on the second drive, and they have not changed anything. of All the other errors I've seen on mailing lists and what not, none say specifically the error above, most are general like 'cannot mount root' or something. I know you guys have probably seen a similar error a lot, but I guess mine is different, because the old tricks don't work with this error. Does anyone have any ideas about what the 6 or the 2 mean in the error? Or Some other way to fix the problem with out putting the hard drives in the same ide chain? I've tried installing this stuff in the past and it has never worked on this machine. thanks John McGarey Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message