From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 17 12:50:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA02704 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:50:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from paprika.michvhf.com (paprika.michvhf.com [209.57.60.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA02625 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:50:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vev@paprika.michvhf.com) Received: (qmail 3792 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Aug 1998 19:49:50 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980817200014.0098f250@stl-group.net> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 15:49:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Vince Vielhaber To: j.baggen@stl-group.com Subject: RE: Instalation on wd2c, primairy IDE Controller Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17-Aug-98 j.baggen@stl-group.com wrote: > > When booting 2.2.6 after installation I got "panic: cannot mount root" > messages. The FreeBSD FAQ (http://www.nl.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ44.html#44) > reported this problem and provided me with a sollution: To fix the > problem I should move both my disks to the primairy IDE controller, but > after rebooting I still got the message. > > All other fixes won`t work for me, cause I can`t boot my system with > FreeBSD. Are there any other sollutions to boot FreeBSD on 2th Hard > Disk that I`m not aware off? > When you get the boot prompt, type 1:wd(2,a)kernel and if it boots for you add that line to /boot.config. That's for the first partition on the master disk of the secondary controller. I think 0:wd(1,a)kernel would boot the slave on the primary. With those two examples you should be able to figure out what you need if your config is different. Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null # include TEAM-OS2 Online Searchable Campground Listings http://www.camping-usa.com "There is no outfit less entitled to lecture me about bloat than the federal government" -- Tony Snow ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message