From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 16:28:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA26457 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 16:28:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from couatl.uchicago.edu (couatl.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26357 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 16:28:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@couatl.uchicago.edu) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by couatl.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10525; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:27:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sfarrell) To: lunarchy@ncfweb.net (Shea F. Kenny) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't mount drive References: <35562de6.1560709@mail.ncfweb.net> From: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 10 May 1998 18:27:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: lunarchy@ncfweb.net's message of "Sun, 10 May 1998 22:47:20 GMT" Message-ID: <87hg2xvh90.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.9/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG lunarchy@ncfweb.net (Shea F. Kenny) writes: > I've just installed Free BSD on my second hard drive. I used > a clean drive and the whole drive for the system. The boot takes me > to the point where it mounts the drive, fails to mount the drive and > it re-boots the computer. What should I do? Perhaps it cannot find your root partition? Try booting with the appropriate options, e.g.,: 1:wd(2,a)kernel ^ -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message