From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 22 13:25:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF2A14D42 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 13:25:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05185; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 13:50:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 13:50:18 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Koos van Herk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD does not start In-Reply-To: <7728081AA44.AAA2E31@smtp02.wxs.nl> 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, 22 Nov 1999, Koos van Herk wrote: > I'm quit interested in Unix, so I recently bought FreeBSD 3.2. > I'm completly new to it, but after a succesfull installation > something went wrong. I started FreeBSD with the Linux LILO > bootmanager and after some errors the startup stopped with this > errormessage: > > changing root device to wd1s1a > changing root device to wd1a > error: panic: cannot mount root (2) > > syncing disk ... done > automatic reboot in 15 seconds. > > As you can guess everything stopped and I rebooted my machine. > Does anyone know a solution to this problem? It seems pretty obvious to me that you have multiple drives, how about sharing your drive configuration with us so we know how to fix your problem? thanks, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message