From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 15 11:07:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA04641 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 11:07:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whorfin.sjca.edu (whorfin.sjca.edu [199.89.180.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA04636 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 11:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (skia@localhost) by whorfin.sjca.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA14639 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 14:07:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 14:07:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Josh Emmons (skia)" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PANIC!: unable to mount root Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a computer with three IDE devices (UGH! I hate them, but they were cheep...): a Seagate 2gig hard drive. a 8x CD-ROM and a Conner 800Mb Hard disk. The two gig is IDE DEVICE 0. It is filled with my DOS stuff, so I added the 800Mb one for Free BSD. After tinkering around with it, I discovered that the only way the insalation program would probe my CD-ROM was it I had it as a slave on the first IDE port, so that became IDE DEVICE 1. That leaves the Conner, which I've tried as both IDE DEVICE 2 and 3. The installation seems to run fine. It probes all the drives, sees them all. It works fine. I set up a slice on the 800Mb drive and use the correct geometry. I have FreeBSD auto-generate the lables, select the "X-User" distribution, and then commit. After installation is finishe, I reboot the machine and wait for Booteasy. I the hit F5 to switc to the other drive (the 800Mb one) and hit F1 for BSD. It then gives me a boot: prompt and I hit enter to use the defaults. It probes and finds all my drives. Then it says something like "switching root system to WD1a" and the line after that says: PANIC!: unable to mount root. It then auto-reboots the machine in 15 seconds. If I install on to IDE DEVICE 0 (the first hard drive that dos calls C: ) everything seems to work fine. It is supposed to be possable to run BSD from a second drive, isn't it? Thanks... j-emmons@sjca.edu _________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------- o \o/ \o_ \| \ / |/ _o/ \o/ o /|\ | _/ \_|o \ | / o|_/ \_ | /|\ / \ / \ \ | \ |o\ /o\ /o| / | / / \ / \ Josh Emmons...j-emmons@sjca.edu