From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 12 18:26:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA12814 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:26:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA12804 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:26:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA22131; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:26:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:26:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Rp2 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem Mounting Kernal In-Reply-To: <199801070324.WAA22077@eagle.freespace.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Rp2 wrote: > I am having huge problems getting freebsd up on my system. We are > installing the OS on a system with > 2 HD 1 3.5 gig Fujitsu (used for win95) and a 1.7 Gig Segate Drive (both > IDE) used for FreeBSD (also has a 200 meg partion on it for dos stuff... > > Anyhow, the installation looks successful, however, when booting for the > first time I get a "panic: cannont mount root" message, then the system > reboots. I tried everything, and we went trough the help files > numerously.... Any idea of what we could be doing wrong... I setup the > kernal, the disk geomitry is ok (I tried both using LBA mode and normal > mode)... You missed the mail archives; the following advice I've posted no less than 50 times. :-) 1. Move your disk to the master position on the primary controller. 2. Follow these instructions: 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). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major