From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 2 15:26:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14739 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:26:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from blue.cabbage.com (pm3bl1-32.csrlink.net [207.44.9.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14636 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:26:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rknebel@csrlink.net) From: rknebel@csrlink.net Received: (from rknebel@localhost) by blue.cabbage.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA00897; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:23:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rknebel) Message-ID: <19980302182310.25510@cabbage.com> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:23:10 -0500 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install problems References: <19980228102103.01460@mail.csrlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 01:08:54PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 01:08:54PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 28 Feb 1998 rknebel@csrlink.net wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am trying to install freebsd on a third harddrive 1.6g which is jumpered > > as secondary slave behing a cdrom which is secondary master. > > I can partition the hard drve fine and install freebsd. > > The kernal boots but it stops with the message changing root device to > > wd2a cannot mount root. It then will just reboot. > > If you get the message: > panic: Cannot mount root > > At the end of the probe sequence you should either: > 1. Have the line: > config kernel root on wd2 > > in your kernel config, > OR: > > 2. Rename the second disk to wd1 in the kernel config (comment out the > original wd1 line and change the wd2 line to read wd1, leaving all other > parameters unchanged). Thanks for your reply. Before I got your message I solved my problem by changing the cdrom to slave and the hard drive to master. > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > -- Rick Knebel rknebel@csrlink.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message