From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 6:27:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au (dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 770D0157EE for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 06:27:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: by dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au (5.64+1.3.1+0.50/UA-5.19) id AA05504; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 22:54:43 +0930 From: Gregory Lewis Message-Id: <9904071324.AA05504@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Panic on installation boot (Adaptec 7895 + 3.1-RELEASE) In-Reply-To: from Font at "Apr 7, 99 01:31:29 am" To: font@couscous.fortdearborn.com (Font) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 22:54:43 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1076 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > What GENERIC kernel says while it's booting for the first time, and every > subsequent attempt: > > ... > ahc0: rev 0x03 int a irq 9 on > pci0.9.0 > ahc0: aic7895 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs > ahc1: rev 0x03 int a irq 9 on > pci0.9.1 > ahc1: aic7895 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs > ... > Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle > changing root device to da1s1a > changing root device to da1a > da0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da0: 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled > da0: 1955MB (4004219 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 249C) > Error 6: panic: cannot mount root(2) I had a similar problem a couple of days ago. You need to do a set root_disk_unit=0 in the boot loader. This can be done automatically if you create a /boot/loader.rc with that line in it. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 3237 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message