Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:19:34 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing root device... Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980306111613.15094B-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980305234824.24994L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote: > 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. See ,y other posting - probably the probe is ok (though I wouldn't mind seeing it :-)), and the kernel finds the controller as well as disk. The problem, though, is that bootloader wrongly assumes that the controller it was booted from is wdc0, and it looks for bootable partition there. I'm not sure if it's the motherboard lying to it, or if it's a dubious assumption made in bootloader... Andrzej Bialecki ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@warman.org.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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