Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 00:25:42 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Jeffrey San Diego <j.sandiego@prodigy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: error 6: panic: cannot mount(2) Message-ID: <20001014002542.W25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <000801c035a9$edf20420$01199696@penguin>; from j.sandiego@prodigy.net on Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 02:40:49AM -0400 References: <000801c035a9$edf20420$01199696@penguin>
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On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 02:40:49AM -0400, Jeffrey San Diego wrote: > My PC has two hard disks, both installed as master drives. After installing from CD-ROM, rebooting and choosing FreeBSD from boot manager, it starts the boot process until it reaches the part that says: > > changing root device to wd1s1a > changing root device to wd1a > error 6: panic: cannot mount(2) > > It automatically reboots in 15 seconds. Then upon reboot, I press any key immediately to get to the prompt and type in > > disk2s1a:> boot 1:wd(2,a)kernel > > I get this > > Cannot find '1:wd(2,a)kernel' This is what you would tell to the boot blocks where to continue the boot. Right after you respond to the F1, F2, etc. menu, hit space. You can enter this here, but... > This is different from what the manual describes. "error 6: panic: cannot mount(2)" and "disk2s1a" seems different. What's wrong? Try setting, set root_disk_unit=2 See, http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/install.html#AEN910 -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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