From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 18 7:49:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web904.mail.yahoo.com (web904.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B95314F1A for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 07:49:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from snoozebunny@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19990918145709.13368.rocketmail@web904.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [207.69.39.16] by web904.mail.yahoo.com; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 07:57:09 PDT Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 07:57:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "Robert M. Layson" Subject: install - newbie To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I recently downloaded the 3.3 release and I am unable to install it. I made it though the config-menu process, but when the system boots it is unable to mount the root directory. the error message is: changing root device to wd1s1a changing root device to wd1a error 6: panic: cannot mount root (2) At this point the system stops and attempts to reboot. - FreeBSD is installed on my second hard drive (wd1) - the disk geometries given in the freebsd boot process match the geometries in the BIOS menu. - my second hard drive shares a FreeBSD, Linux, and a dos partition. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Robert __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message