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Date:      Mon, 07 Apr 1997 13:11:10 +0300
From:      Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To:        kuma <kuma@mathlab.sunysb.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic
Message-ID:  <3348C83E.331D@barcode.co.il>
References:  <Pine.SUN.3.96.970406003721.2632A-100000@mathlab.sunysb.edu>

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kuma wrote:
> 
> hi,
> i have a question about booting FreeBSD.  I have two hard drives C and D,
> i installed FreeBSD on D.  Everything went fine during installation.  But
> when i tried to boot up D:, it will load up all the drivers and gave me a
> message "panic:can not mount root".  I did set D: bootable tho
> any help will be really appreciate?
> Mark
> 
>   |\_/| ..mew, mew
>  ='O.O'=
>   (m m)  -- kuma   http://www.mathlab.sunysb.edu/~kuma
>   (M_M)~~

Is your second drive the master on the secondary IDE channel by chance?

If so, this has been asked and answered many times.
To boot, use:
1:wd(2,a)/kernel

at the Boot: prompt. Then one of the following two should work:
1. Have the following line in the kernel config file:
config kernel root on wd2

*or*

2. Coment out the wd1 line in the kernel config file, and change the wd2
on its line to wd1 (don't touch anything else). Then replace all
references to wd2 in /etc/fstab to refer to wd1.

In both cases, after you build and install the new kernel, you should be
able to boot with the default options.

Nadav



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