From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Apr 7 22:50:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from thunder.thumbs.org (thunder.thumbs.org [194.217.125.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7BC153BC for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 22:50:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from russ@thumbs.org) Received: from russ by thunder.thumbs.org with local (Exim 2.05 #1) id 10V7mQ-0004be-00; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 06:55:10 +0100 Subject: Re: Panic: Cannot mount root In-Reply-To: <87323DE917E1D011ACFC00A0C955B04B4C4638@MAIL> from G Murugan at "Apr 7, 99 10:00:31 pm" To: GMurugan@encanto.com (G Murugan) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 06:55:10 +0100 (BST) Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1668 Message-Id: From: Russ Paton Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hello all, > > I am new to the FreeBSD. I installed the FreeBSD 2.2.8 on a Compaq > m/e(Seagae HDD). After the installation got completed and when i tried to > restart the PC, i got a read error. I had the harddisk removed and connected > to another a PC. Now FreeBSD on this new PC boots but gives out the message > "Panic: Cannot mount root". How can i go about this problem and what exectly > does this mean. > > thanx for any help. > Thirumurugan > [snip] Drive Geometry is the key here, you can get around this and get the machine to complete the boot process, simply enter the correct drive at the boot prompt, ie, 1:wd(1,0)kernel This would have the effect of booting the first IDE drive on the second IDE channel with the default kernel - When the boot prompt appears, there is some brief help on additional boot commands that can be used, you can find that it's a little bit of trial and error until you find the right start-up configuration, but it does work. The other option you have (if your machine will also still boot into DOS), is to copy the following files from the FreeBSD CD-Rom: - bootinst.exe boot.bin Now (under DOS) run bootinst.exe and answer Yes to the subsequent questions. Once the program has completed, reboot the machine and you should see a new boot menu that will offer you options dependent on your OS list, ie: F1 Dos F2 FreeBSD Choosing F2 will then boot you properly into FreeBSD, completeing the boot process. I hope that this helps. Regards Russ -- Russ Paton russ@thumbs.org http://www.thumbs.org eouaaWrnmflaalatlyyynew'whwaaaayyy - Name the song - HINT = My Domain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message