Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 09:07:22 -0400 From: smartin@usit.net (Steve Martin) To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD 2.0 install problem Message-ID: <199508271307.JAA01402@use.usit.net>
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I'm not really sure this qualifies as a "bug" per se, but I figure that
(assuming it's not something I did wrong) this will take some piddling at
the source code level to fix, so it would fall in the programmers' domain.
I have a 486DX2/80 system, 16M RAM, VLB, with a Promise EIDE controller
driving two WD drives, 800M (first drive) and 400M. I have MS-DOS on the
800M drive, and wish to put FreeBSD on the second drive.
I followed the instructions in the install screens, and also the caveat in
the TROUBLESHOOTING file about rebooting. I installed the boot manager on
the MBR of the first drive, partitioned/labelled/whatever the second drive
as 374M root, 32M swap (drive is actually 406M), made it bootable, and
proceeded to the next screen, where several things were written to the drive
(/kernel and the rest). When the system rebooted, and I was presented with
the "boot:" prompt, I entered
hd(1,a)/kernel
as instructed in the TROUBLESHOOTING file. The system proceeded to boot from
the hard drive, went through device probing, then said
panic: unable to mount root
and rebooted.
What have I done wrong that it can't find root on the disk?
Again, if I have directed this to the wrong party, please forgive.
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