From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 2 21:52:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA03427 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 21:52:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA03362 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 21:52:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA21733; Sat, 2 May 1998 21:50:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 21:50:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: STG cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation In-Reply-To: <01bd75e2$d4113c80$4feea0a8@------> 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 On Sat, 2 May 1998, STG wrote: > I got a copy of FREEBSD2.2.5. The installation is OK, bbut when I start > , it always tell me "panic:cannot mount root" , and then the system > reboot. My computer is P5-133, 48M RAM, 4.3G Hard Disk, with WINDOWS95 > installed. I assigned a space of about 500M for freebsd. Could you tell > me why? You probably have your CD placed between your disks or some type of misconfiguration on your IDE bus. Move your FreeBSD disk so that it's the first disk in the system then do the following: If you get the message: panic: Cannot mount root At the end of the probe sequence you should either: 1. Have the line: config kernel root on wd2 in your kernel config, OR: 2. Rename the second disk to wd1 in the kernel config (comment out the original wd1 line and change the wd2 line to read wd1, leaving all other parameters unchanged). 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