From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 18:18:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA03238 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:18:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp2.jps.net (smtp2.jps.net [209.63.224.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03143 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:18:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gseward@jps.net) Received: from default (209-239-197-156.oak.jps.net [209.239.197.156]) by smtp2.jps.net (8.9.0/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA13298; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:19:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810170119.SAA13298@smtp2.jps.net> From: "Gil" To: "Joseph M. Scott" Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:17:37 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Another similar first install Reply-to: gseward@jps.net CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199810161758.KAA26040@smtp2.jps.net> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the reply Joseph, but it did not work for me. I got the same result as before "Panic: cannot mount root". I also followed Doug White's suggestion and looked at the FAQ, which led me to change the drive geometry in bios/setup to indicate a 512MB drive, and reinstalled, to no effect. Any other ideas? > > 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