Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:01:44 +0200 From: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> To: 'Earle Flynn-E|F|X' <efx@cityusa.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: error 6: panic: can not mount root (2) Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C110027617969F@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Earle Flynn-E|F|X [SMTP:efx@cityusa.net] > Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 5:02 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: error 6: panic: can not mount root (2) > > Upon reboot after my first install this message. Any help? > This is the full console message: > *Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle > *Changing root device to da1s2a > *changing root device to da1a > *error 6: panic: can not mount root (2) > > My setup is IDE & SCSI disks. The IDE is the primary DOS boot and can > not > spare the space ;-). The second disk is the SCSI disk, where my > FreeBSD 3.2 > partition resides. With help from the FAQ & maillists it seems as > though the > 'boot blocks' point to the right place to begin probing for devices. > Which > it does fairly smoothly. I liked how easy it was to select devices > during > install. Then the kernel points to the wrong place to mount \. > > SCSI Disk Name da0 > da0s1 FAT partition > da0s2 FreeBSD partition > da0s2a is \ > > I tried 0:da(2a) Kernel at boot prompt. No luck. But I am not sure if > I [ML] The literal string looks like this for your case: 1:da(0,a)kernel Please, note the leading one, a comma between zero and a, zero, standing for da0, no blank between closing parenthesis and kernel, and lowercased kernel. This works for me. /Marino > totally know which prompt I should be at. What am I missing? Thanks > for any > help! > > > > 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
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