From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Aug 15 18: 4: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from exegrnnts001.seattleu.edu (exegrnnts001.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EEE3153CA for ; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 18:04:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu (ppp11.pm2a.wport.com [206.129.99.61]) by exegrnnts001.seattleu.edu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id QS0G8R4Z; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 18:03:53 -0700 Message-ID: <37B763AA.12609DCB@seattleu.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 18:04:42 -0700 From: Eric Hodel Organization: Dis X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Cruz, Lito [IBM GSA]" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing freeBSD3.2 References: <199908160020.KAA07360@mail.cdn.telstra.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Cruz, Lito [IBM GSA]" wrote: > > Hello al, > > I have tried to install freeBSD3.2 onto my P200 96 MB with 3.2GB Fujitsu > Hard Disk. It is configured as primary slave (I am using my office > computer today but I can get more details later). > > My installation goes trhough but once I get freeBSD to boot I get this. > > chnaging root device to wd0s2a > changing root device to wd0a > error 6:panic can not mount root(2) > syncing disk ... done > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds > press any key on the console to abort. > > what ever I do it just goes into this loop, it automatically reboots and > again fails with the panic and the whole deal gets repeated again. > > Anyone of your comments will be appreciated as to what I am doing wrong. > Could it have something to do with my single hard disk not being > primary master? However, this config seems tobeoke with win2K(beta). > Help! > > gracias, > > Lito > > ...ex nihilo, nihil fit... This is described in TROUBLE.TXT on the root of your HDD. It also is reported in the mailing list archives. Always RTFM. -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu "They cook your gonies" -Terry Lambert's uncle on why he doesn't have a microwave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message