Date: Thu, 16 Feb 95 11:17:26 -0600 From: jcargill@cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: forwarded message from Kevin Flewitt Message-ID: <9502161717.AA00160@grilled.cs.wisc.edu>
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I got the following email from someone who's having trouble installing 2.0 on his second IDE drive; it looks to me as if he did the "right things" for a 2nd disk install. Am I missing something, or has anyone seen a problem like this before? Thanks for any help, Jon ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- Message-Id: <199502151942.OAA19658@gold.interlog.com> X-Sender: shatz@interlog.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: <PC Eudora Version 1.4> From: shatz@interlog.com (Kevin Flewitt) To: jcargill Subject: BSD install problem. Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 14:41:26 -0400 [...] I'm running a DX2-66 with 8 megs of RAM. I have twin 420 meg IDE drives. The first one is currently for DOS. I wanted to use the second one for BSD. I read the trouble shooting and loaded the boot stuff on the first drive. On the second drive I assigned "a" 20 meg for /, "b" 16 meg for swap and "e" the rest for /usr. I had a successful write. I then went to proceed and it sure looked like it was writing stuff to the drive. It completed that part and I was asked to remove the floppy from the drive and reboot. Upon reboot I chose F5 (from the boot manager) to boot from the second disk. I then keyed in "hd(1,a)/kernel" and it started to boot. The last probe it did was- npx0 on motherboard then it said- panic:cannot mount root syncing disks...done Automatic reboot in 15 seconds-press a key on the console to abort I'm sure it's something stupid on my part but I'm so close to this I can taste it. Can you offer some suggestions. I might add that before I started, the second disk was used for a Yggdrasil release of Linux. It worked well and I had Xwindows running as well as Netscape. I chose to go with BSD because I had been told that If I liked Linux I'd love BSD. I would love to love BSD. Thankyou for your time..... K. - -|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-| - -|-|-|-| Kevin Flewitt is shatz@interlog.com Phone - (416) 966-4833 Fax - (416) 962-0079 Home Page - http://www.interlog.com:80/~shatz/ ------- end -------
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