Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 11:18:58 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> To: jcargill@cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Cc: shatz@interlog.com (Kevin Flewitt) Subject: BSD install problem. (was Re: forwarded message from Kevin Flewitt) Message-ID: <199502161818.LAA17153@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: jcargill@cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) "forwarded message from Kevin Flewitt" (Feb 16, 11:17am)
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> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 14:41:26 -0400
[ Two drive setup ]
> 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
I suspect this is his problem. From GENERIC:
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#
# GENERIC -- Generic machine with WD/AHx/NCR/BTx family disks
.....
config kernel root on wd0 swap on wd0 and wd1 and sd0 and sd1 and vn0 dumps on wd0
^^^^^^^^^^^
This needs to be changed to wd1 for this system. You'll need a custom
kernel for this box. Maybe one of the user can build you one.
Unfortunately, I'm still in mid-upgrade due to my new tape-drive going
bad the day after I got it.
To hacker folks:
Is there anyway we can change this to:
config kernel root on boot swap on boot dumps on boot
Similar to what Ultrix does?
Nate
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