From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 1 15:10:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20625 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 15:10:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20476 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 15:10:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA16472; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:41:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:41:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Maxim V. Razin" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root partition not found In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Maxim V. Razin wrote: > During the first boot after installing of my 2.2.2-RELEASE it > successfully passes through device tests and stops with the > smth like "root partition not found". Actually, it tries to > find root at wd1a although it is at wd2s1. > > How to explain to the kernel where the root partition is placed? 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). You may have to move your disk temporarily to boot it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message