From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 27 1:29: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E802F14D8B for ; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 01:28:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA02593; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 01:56:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 01:56:40 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Koos van Herk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD tries to start the wrong partition In-Reply-To: <77280A05850.AAA5528@smtp02.wxs.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Koos van Herk wrote: > I've recently installed FreeBSD 3.2 on my computer and after a > succesfull installation something went terribly wrong. I started > FreeBSD with the Linux LILO-bootmanager and after recognising my > harddisks everything stopped with this message: > > changing root device to wd1s1a > changing root device to wd1a > error: panic: cannot mount root (2) > > syncing disk....done > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds > > I've installed FreeBSD on wd2 and not wd1! So how can I change this in > the right partition? I hope anyone has got a solution for me. press a key during the countdown to the kernel boot and type: set root_disk_unit=2 after you boot add: root_disk_unit="2" to /boot/loader.conf enjoy, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message