Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:11:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Ben Compton <peabody@naxs.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic cannot mount root Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809132210150.1111-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980911232343406.AAA121@excalibur>
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On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Ben Compton wrote: > Before I get to my question I'd like to take a min to offer my thanks to > those of you that responded to my disk copying post. The suggestion about > using tar to backup and then restore the files worked wonderfully. I > really appreciate those of you that helped me out. Thanks much. > > Now to my question. I'm Installing FreeBSD 2.2.6 Stable on my machine. I > have it on a hard drive that is the master unit on my secondary IDE chain. > The install went without a hitch but when I reboot and try to run it > everything appears to be fine then I get the panic: cannot mount root > message. I read a couple things about telling it exactly where to look for > the kernel and such and they didn't seem to work. The reason the hard > drive is on the secondary chain is so that I could complete the install. I > could not carry out an install when I had both hard drives on the primary > chain and my CD-ROM on the secondary so I had to move the CD-ROM over to > the primary in order for it to function properly. Try moving it back now. Were you having problems getting the CD recognized? > So that is the reason for the system configuration. Oh and there is > also a Zip drive on the secondary chain set up as the slave. (Dunno if > that is relevant or not but what the hey it may be the one bit of info > someone needs to figure out my probs :) The 2.2.6 installer was probably getting mad at the Zip drive. It's a known problem, all you had to do was pull the Zip temporarily. PCI soundcards are not currently supported. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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