From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 18 09:33:33 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA09850 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 09:33:33 -0800 Received: from gatekeeper.imagen.com (gatekeeper.imagen.com [161.33.3.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA09840 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 09:33:31 -0800 Received: from imagen.sclara.qms.com (imagen.imagen.com) by gatekeeper.imagen.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17403; Wed, 18 Jan 95 09:33:20 PST Received: from sun470.rd.qms.com (sun470-t1) by imagen.sclara.qms.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23368; Wed, 18 Jan 95 09:33:19 PST Received: from whaler.rd.qms.com by sun470.rd.qms.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA21120; Wed, 18 Jan 95 11:33:00 CST From: davis@rd.qms.com (Tom Davis) Received: by whaler.rd.qms.com (4.1) id AA12573; Wed, 18 Jan 95 11:33:16 CST Date: Wed, 18 Jan 95 11:33:16 CST Message-Id: <9501181733.AA12573@whaler.rd.qms.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Panic: Can't mount root Cc: davis@sun470.rd.qms.com Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi guys, Hope this isn't a ridiculously stupid question... I'm installing FreeBSD to a 2nd drive (Use All option - No DOS partition) and followed the TroubleShooting notes on this subject to a tee (I think) including writing the MBR (B)ootcode to the 1st drive. All seems to work as expected until I reboot from hard disk. Devices seem to be found, but when I get to the mounts, I get a 'panic: can't mount root' message and auto-reboot. Do I need to make any manual changes to 'fstab' with this configuration?? If so, can you make a suggestion on how (from the boot floppy)? Or should I try putting bootcode on 2nd drive, then reversing IDE master/slave jumpers so that BSD drive is temporarily the primary?? Any other possbile causes? Maybe an incorrect disklabel?? a (Starts at 0, Ends at 32MB-1) 32MB / b 32MB-96MB 64MB swap c d e the rest 420MB /usr f unused Thank you for your help. I hope that I can return the favor with some code contributions some day (perhaps in the Enhanced IDE area??). I currently write most of the code for our file systems and disk drivers for QMS printers (and have been for 4-5 years). Tom Davis Member Technical Staff QMS, Inc.