From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 14:23: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E65E14FCB for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:23:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08663; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:22:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 14:22:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cant mount root device? In-Reply-To: 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 Mon, 17 May 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > hello, > I have a hard disk which has freebsd 3.2 stable on it > I have put it to secondary hdd controller and it did not work > there. I have also put it to primary master and slave and > at primary controller it works fine in all conditions > also I have checked the kernel config file and set > config kernel root on wd2 > well also when it was set to wd0, it was working on both > primary slave and primary master position. > and then I tried to change the root partition to /dev/wd2s1a > and disk2s1a from the boot loader program with set rootdev command > > but I always get the same error message > trying to mount root partition on wd1s1 > and then it says > trying to mount root partition on wd1s1a > then it says > panic cant mount root partition...... I'm confused. Where is your hard disk attached? Can you describe your IDE busses? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message