From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Oct 16 13:09:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00525 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:09:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp2.jps.net (smtp2.jps.net [209.63.224.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00519 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:09:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gseward@jps.net) Received: from default (209-239-198-102.oak.jps.net [209.239.198.102]) by smtp2.jps.net (8.9.0/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA04453 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:10:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810162010.NAA04453@smtp2.jps.net> From: "Gil" To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:08:06 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Another similar first install Reply-to: gseward@jps.net X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am having a problem similar to Bill Hamilton's. I have a Pentium 166 on an Abit MB, 64MB ram , two FAT32 IDE drives on the first IDE port and another IDE drive dedicated to FreeBSD (master) and a CDROM on the second IDE port. My BIOS lets me choose my boot drive and I have it set to E:. I installed FreeBSD, and the user configuration showed no conflicts except for my Ps/2 mouse, which configuration said was allowed. When I try to boot it I get a message "Panic: cannot mount root". When, at the Boot: prompt, I enter: 0:wd(0,a)? I get a result like this: . .. dev usr var stand etc proc cdrom dist bin lkm mnt root sbin tmp sys boot.hlp.cshrc .profile COPYRIGHT kernel.GENERIC kernel.config boot.config home I have tried "0:wd(0,a)GENERIC kernel" and "0:wd(0,a)compat kernel", and both run, but both also give me the "Panic: cannot mount root" error. Can anyone help a Newbie? Gil Seward Gil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message