From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 30 8:20:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns0.sitesnow.com (ns0.sitesnow.com [216.130.1.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C1714C36 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 08:20:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com) Received: from gskouby (helo=localhost) by ns0.sitesnow.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11haIf-000HoR-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 11:20:13 -0400 Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 11:20:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Skouby To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unable to mount root: please help! In-Reply-To: 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 Please disregard this message, I answered my own question by searching through the archives for a couple of hours, which I should have done in the first place! Thanks anways. For people that may have this same problem the solution was to type set root_disk_unit="4" at the boot prompt. Thanks again, sorry to take up your time! On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Greg Skouby wrote: > Hello, > I am installing FreeBSD 3.3 on IBM netfinity. > I have an interntal SCSI disk of 9 gigs. It is bios disk1 but it > showed up in the FreeBSD install as da4 so that is where I installed it > to. It showed up as da4 because there are 4 23 gig scsi disks attached to > the box via the external scsi. So, the freebsd is on bios disk1 but it is > called da4 inside of freebsd. The root partition is on disk1s1a, however, > when it goes to boot it says "changing root device to da0a" which promptly > follows up to "cannot mount root". How do I get it to boot off of > disk1s1a, and therefore mount root as da4a? Thank you very much. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message