From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 15:01:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26627 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:01:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhub.ainet.com (mailhub.ainet.com [204.30.40.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26451 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:00:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmscott@shell.ainet.com) Received: from shell.ainet.com (jmscott@shell.ainet.com [204.30.40.108]) by mailhub.ainet.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA26964; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by shell.ainet.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24052; for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 16 Oct 98 15:01:36 PDT Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:01:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joseph M. Scott" X-Sender: jmscott@shell To: Gil Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another similar first install In-Reply-To: <199810161758.KAA26040@smtp2.jps.net> 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 I believe the line you are looking for is : 0:wd(0,a)/kernel.GENERIC Joseph Scott jmscott@ainet.com On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Gil wrote: > I am having a problem similar to Bill Hamilton's. I have a Pentium > 166 on an Abit MB, 64MB ram , two FAT32 IDE drives on the first > IDE port and another IDE drive dedicated to FreeBSD (master) and > a CDROM on the second IDE port. My BIOS lets me choose my > boot drive and I have it set to E:. I installed FreeBSD, and the user > configuration showed no conflicts except for my Ps/2 mouse, > which configuration said was allowed. When I try to boot it I get a > message "Panic: cannot mount root". When, at the Boot: prompt, > I enter: 0:wd(0,a)? I get a result like this: > > . .. dev usr var stand etc proc cdrom dist bin lkm mnt root sbin tmp > sys boot.hlp.cshrc .profile COPYRIGHT kernel.GENERIC > kernel.config boot.config home > > I have tried "0:wd(0,a)GENERIC kernel" and "0:wd(0,a)compat > kernel", and both run, but both also give me the "Panic: cannot > mount root" error. > Can anyone help a Newbie? > > Gil Seward > > 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