From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 18 22:41:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA17961 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:41:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from root.com (root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA17955 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:41:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@root.com) Received: from root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA22456; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:42:44 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199811190642.WAA22456@root.com> To: "Mark A. Pitman" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "cant mount root" error after install (with a single SCSI HD) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 19 Nov 1998 04:27:30 GMT." <36539E32.52CECBFF@primenet.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:42:43 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I am able to install FreeBSD 2.2.7 successfully, however when I reboot, >I get the "panic: cant mount root" error. I am using a single SCSI HD >on an NCR53c810 PCI controller. I have noticed that when the system >boots, the kernel does not probe or detect any of the PCI devices. The >boot floppy probes the PCI devices fine (I guess that's pretty obvious, >since it installed). Anybody know what I can do to fix this? I'm new to That's a pretty strange problem - the first one I've heard like that. I can't think of anything off hand that would cause the installed kernel to ignore your PCI bus when the one on the install floppy sees it just fine. As a test, can you try to install 3.0? -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message