From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 19 10:01:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00403 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 10:01:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from darwin.snowmoon.com (ts2p55.wizvax.net [204.97.162.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00393 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 10:01:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jaime@wizvax.net) Received: from localhost (jaime@localhost) by darwin.snowmoon.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA09727; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 13:07:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jaime@darwin.snowmoon.com) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 13:06:58 -0500 (EST) From: Jaime Reply-To: jaime@snowmoon.com To: Charles Williams cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0 In-Reply-To: <000701be2b76$72866c20$bd301e26@williams> 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 On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Charles Williams wrote: > Dear FreeBSD, > I have a computer running Windows 98. I have installed FreeBSD > 3.0 to my second hard drive. Whenever I try to boot and start the > kernel, I get this error message at the end of the scan for kernel > devices: "error 6: panic: cannot mount root (2)" then my system > restarts. I have never run FreeBSD since I've installed it. Please > send me all the info you have on fixing this problem. I am eager to > run FreeBSD. > > -cr1148 > > P.S. > Please reply at cr1148@earthlink.net > > Is the "second drive" that you refer to on the second EIDE chain? If so, at the boot prompt type "1:wd(2,a)kernel" or something similar. I had that problem when I installed 3.0 to the primary hard drive on the second chain. Even re-compiling the kernel with: config kernel root on wd2 ...didn't help me. Perhaps this is a bug? You may wish to reinstall your system to wd0 or wd1 just to avoid this need. In my case, it was my job's new mail and web server. Since I wanted it to automatically recover after a kernel panic, I had to reinstall the system and move the slice which contained "/" (a.k.a. the "root" from your error) to wd0. The rest of my files went on wd2, so it wasn't too big of a deal. Good luck, Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message