From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 10 23:07:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA04350 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:07:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA04345 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:07:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00997; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:06:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:06:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Vincent Ramos cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing freebsd In-Reply-To: <199702110303.WAA08159@revelstone.jvm.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Vincent Ramos wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBsd on a 2nd drive (scsi). The installation > seems to be completed correctly, but soon after I boot the system I get a > "root not mount" message followed by a panic message that reboots the > machine within 10 seconds. This happened after all the devices were mounted. > I have tried reinstalling FreeBsd a number of times and I always end up with > the same results. Am I doing something wrong?. Please help. This is fairly normal on combination IDE/SCSI systems. Boot the boot floppy and type sd(0,a)/kernel At the boot: prompt, assuming FreeBSD is on the disk identified as sd0. Once you get up, rebuild your kernel and change the 'kernel' line in the configfile to match the location of the kernel. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major