Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:22:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ray <bornhr75@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic on boot.. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970921212155.4716N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <34244D59.95DCC6CF@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu>
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On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Ray wrote: > I have installed the 2.2.2 RELEASE of FreeBSD on my system. I have > also installed the 'os-bs' boot manager to the system. > My problem is this-- I have 2 IDE connections, a primary and a > secondary. On my primary I have a new 4G Western Digital drive with 2 > primary DOS partitions running in Master mode, and I have an EIDE CD-Rom > as the slave on that cabel. On the Secondary connector I have my old > 1.6G drive split in the middle with the the front 1/2 as my BSD > partition, and the second 1/2 as DOS. > Here is my problem.. I have successfully installed my components > (BSD) to the wd2 disk (secondary connection), on s1 (wd2s1) and the boot > manager can get me to the kernel on that partition (I get a boot prompt, > and probe all the selected devices) but at the end the system tries to > change root device to wd1a (slave cd) and gives a panic: cannot mount > root error. Common problem. You can probably get it booted if you specify 1:wd(2,a)/kernel at the boot: prompt, or if you move the disk to the primary channel temporarily. Then see below to fix yourself up. 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). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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