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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:49:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com>
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Subject: Re: changing root device...
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On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Cory Kempf wrote:

> 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 <ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/incoming/cam-boot.tgz>, I was able to
> successfully install.  If I do a fixit, and mount /dev/da0a or /dev/da0s1
> on /mnt1.

I thought something was funny with those device names.

> 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 need to see the device probe output, particularly for your SCSI
controller and associated devices.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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