From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 6 19:12:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA07572 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 19:12:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from law-f83.hotmail.com (law-f83.hotmail.com [209.185.131.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA07567 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 19:12:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joshcrouse@hotmail.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by law-f83.hotmail.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA26471 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 19:12:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joshcrouse@hotmail.com) Message-Id: <199812070312.TAA26471@law-f83.hotmail.com> Received: from 208.142.251.64 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sun, 06 Dec 1998 19:12:05 PST X-Originating-IP: [208.142.251.64] From: "Josh Crouse" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: re: FreeBSD 2.2.6 question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 19:12:05 PST Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Josh Crouse wrote: I just finished the installation of FreeBSD 2.2.6, after the initial install it reboots my machine, loads and then gives me a Kernel panic that says, "Panic : Cannot mount root" what am i supposed to do to cure this problem? --- Ok, Iv read the FreeBSD online help questions and everything the replys said for me to do, and none of it has worked: let me explain my situation. I have my HD's setup as is on my Pirmary IDE i have Primary Master:> 2.16gig > Non-FreeBSD drive Primary Slave:> 1.2gig > FreeBSD drive Secondary Master:> 2.4gig > Non-FreeBSD driveSlave Secondary:> Cd-rom thats the way i have my hd's setup, im booting into FreeBSD with a boot disk, when i get to the boot: prompt i type *kernel* to launch the kernel on my BSD drive it launches fine and when it gets done probing it panics. Panic: Cannot mount root I have no idea what im doing wrong? any suggestions? thanks .. Josh ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message