From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 2 10:55:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA09250 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 10:55:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA09171 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 10:54:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA09138; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 10:54:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 10:54:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dima Dorfman cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: cannot mount root In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980401183920.0090e160@mail.zwb.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Dima Dorfman wrote: > I've searched through all the archives, and tries all solutions that made > since, but my system still dies with a "panic: cannot mount root". No, that search should have returned hundreds of responses just like this: If you get the message: panic: Cannot mount root At the end of the probe sequence you should either: 1. Have the line: config kernel root on wd2 in your kernel config, OR: 2. Rename the second disk to wd1 in the kernel config (comment out the original wd1 line and change the wd2 line to read wd1, leaving all other parameters unchanged). I could make a better determination if I have the kernel boot output, particuarly for the wdc probes. Your .sig is ... extensive. To the point of being almost longer than your message. :( Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message