From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 19 21:54:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA20890 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:54:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA20737 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 04:54:18 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA08745; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:54:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:54:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: BeroLinux cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble booting FreeBSD for the first time In-Reply-To: <8e3ebe7c.353a134a@aol.com> 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 Sun, 19 Apr 1998, BeroLinux wrote: > I've just installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 from an official FreeBSD CD. > Installation worked fine, but I can't boot it. > Every time I try booting into FreeBSD, it claims it cannot mount the root > filesystem, and resets the computer. > I've tried specifying the root partition manually (in several variations, such > as "3:sd(3,a)kernel -rrsd1a", "3:sd(3,a) kernel -rsd1a"), with the same > outcome. I have never seen the -r flag. > My system is an AMD K6, 64 MB RAM, 2 IDE disks + 3 SCSI disk, with FreeBSD > being on the second SCSI disk (sd1). Problem: Your BIOS can only see the first two IDE disks for the purposes of booting, thus you can't boot your SCSI disks. That or LILO doesn't like you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message