From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 8 19:25:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA26934 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 19:25:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ha1.rdc2.occa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.occa.home.com [24.2.8.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA26867 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 19:25:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from silentbob@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.1.135.75]) by ha1.rdc2.occa.home.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5 release 217 ID# 1-1U40000L0S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:30:55 -0700 Message-ID: <35CCEDAA.576AA085@home.com> Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 17:30:34 -0700 From: John McWhirter Organization: @Home Network X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en]C-AtHome0402 (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: PANIC!!! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG when I restart after installation I get panic: cannot mount root I've tried the fix outlined in the FreeBSD FAQ(2.24) "To fix the problem, do one of the following: 1.At the Boot: prompt, enter 1:wd(2,a)/kernel and press Enter. If the system starts, then run the command echo "1:wd(2,a)/kernel" > /boot.config to make it the default boot string. 2.Move the FreeBSD disk onto the primary IDE controller, so the hard disks are consecutive." That did not work, I think because the drive I want to boot from is already on the primary IDE controller. can someone help me out with this... Thanks, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message