From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 19 10:10:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA21370 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:10:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from horton.iaces.com ([204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA21365 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:10:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA03049; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 12:10:11 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199611191810.MAA03049@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Cannot mount root To: 72271.3671@CompuServe.COM (Clayton Carney) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 12:10:11 -0600 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <961119170919_72271.3671_CHU61-1@CompuServe.COM> from Clayton Carney at "Nov 19, 96 12:09:20 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Clayton Carney said: > Hi, > > I been struggling for two weeks to get FreeBSD up and running on my system. I > would appreciate some help, as the folks at Walnut Creek have told me they have > no idea what is wrong here. > > I went thru the novice install, choosing defaults and automatic for all options. > When the system tries to boot, it fails and the last two lines displayed are: > > changing root device to wd1a > panic: cannot mount root > > First, let give some configuration background. My system is setup as follows: > > - Zeos Pentium 75MHz with 48MB RAM > - Seagate 815MB hard drive set as a master on IDE controller 1. > - Mitsumi FX-004 IDE CDROM drive set as a slave on IDE controller 1. > - Western Digital 1549MD hard drive set as single on IDE controller 2. > - Diamond Stealth 64 video card. > - Microsoft serial mouse. > > > wd0 - 815MB drive > wdc1 - unknown (says something about ATAPI) > wcd0 - CD drive > wd2 - 1549MB drive It seems to me that the problem is what the boot sector and the kernel think are the disk names. What you could try is to move your FBSD disk to primary slave (temporarily), and rebuild the kernel to put wd1 on the second IDE controller. Install the kernel and move the disk and cd back where they were. Paul. -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030