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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 00:25:42 -0700
From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Jeffrey San Diego <j.sandiego@prodigy.net>
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Subject: Re: error 6: panic: cannot mount(2)
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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


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