Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 13:19:20 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: Milena <milenad@videotron.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error when I boot!!!! Message-ID: <14454.19016.968572.87246@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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> This is the message I get when I boot FreeBSD : > > error 6 : panic : cannot mount root (2) > > > What can I do??? I don't understand!!! I've just installed it 5 times > and everytime it gives me this message! What does it mean? Can you help > me! > Thank you very much! > > Milena Hello, You need to provide us with a little bit more information about your hardware configuration. I've seen things like this before where after the install the root partition could not be mounted. Most of the reasons I've seen mentioned on this list are caused by wierdness with IDE disks that I don't currently have a good handle on (I use only scsi disks). Tell us how your machine is setup, what machine it is, etc. Specifically if you have IDE devices, disks, CD-ROMS, etc. tell us which ones are setup on which controllers and if they are master or slave. You might also hit: http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html and search the "questions" and "hackers" archive for that error message or related words (e.g. cannot and mount and root). Another hint: You can use the ScrollLock then PgUp/PgDn keys on the console to see the boot messages if they scroll off your screen. Seeing these might help somebody to diagnose what's going on (looking at the probe messages). It'll be some typing, but just might give somebody the info they need to help. good luck, -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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