From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 13 18:10:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA04805 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 18:10:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA04780 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 18:10:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id RAA02722 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:43:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA26803; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:43:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:43:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Sann Yam cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't boot up In-Reply-To: <9611131654.AA10806@futon.sfsu.edu> 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 Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Sann Yam wrote: > I'm trying to install the FreeBSD ver 2.1 on my machine, and > everytime it boot up to the point after the VGA setting, it says > "change root devic to wd1a", and then there's message that says > panic, cannot mount root... and then the system gives 15 sec to stop from > rebooting. EVerytime I get to this point, there always this message > to reboot, and the machine reboot itself after the 15 sec. Can you > tell me what is the problme. I tried to disable the conflicts drivers, > but still get that panic message, seem like a kernel's problem that > always want to change the mounting. Try giving the location explictly through the Boot: prompt instead of taking the default. For your system, it would be: wd(1,a)/kernel To boot a kernel on the second IDE disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major