From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Aug 27 06:13:36 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA21848 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 06:13:36 -0700 Received: from use.usit.net (use.usit.net [199.1.48.3]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA21842 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 06:13:35 -0700 Received: from bway-slip55.dynamic.usit.net (bway-slip55.dynamic.usit.net [199.1.63.55]) by use.usit.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA01402 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 09:07:22 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 09:07:22 -0400 Message-Id: <199508271307.JAA01402@use.usit.net> X-Sender: smartin@usit.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: bugs@FreeBSD.org From: smartin@usit.net (Steve Martin) Subject: FreeBSD 2.0 install problem Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.