From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 3 16:27:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57398497D for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 14:05:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from ales (ales.megared.net.mx [207.249.163.251]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA86534; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:03:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <007501bf6e92$bfdee640$020a0a0a@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Steve Leibel" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: Subject: RE: The dreaded "cannot mount root" Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:05:15 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Try with "set root_disk_unit=2" , then type "boot" without the quotes, and put the first line in the file "/boot/loader.rc" for keep booting the system without typing it again. Have Fun... Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Leibel To: Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 3:02 PM Subject: The dreaded "cannot mount root" > I just installed FreeBSD on my Pentium system. The install is indeed > on the second IDE drive, a situation covered by the manual. The > manual says to try > > boot 1:wd(2,a)kernel > > but I get "kernel already loaded" and when I try "unload" and retry > the boot command, I get another error message. > > Any suggestions? > > Steve L > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message