From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 22 16:10:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA28832 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 16:10:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from houseofduck.ml.org (geo-160.remote.dti.net [206.252.145.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA28784 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 16:09:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from houseofduck.ml.org (localhost.ml.org [127.0.0.1]) by houseofduck.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA16838 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 19:11:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3425A9B1.1FD7432B@houseofduck.ml.org> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 19:11:45 -0400 From: Joshua Fielden Reply-To: jfielden@geocities.com Organization: GeoCities X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02b7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-970903-RELENG i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Kernel config problems... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ...I'm sure I saw this a while ago, but when I searched the archives, I came up zilch... I configured a kernel, with the following option: config kernel root on wd0 I have two EIDE hard drives on two seperate busses, on a BSD-only setup, and when I compile the kernel and install I get the following error: Panic: Nobody wants to mount my root for me. Press any key on the console to reboot After the device probe. Now I know I'm missing something basic, but I can't think what it is, and have been staring at my monitor for too many hours, anyone got a solution? -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual life-threatening emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you would not have been informed. -- Joshua Fielden, Systems Administrator, GeoCities http://www.geocities.com jfielden@geocities.com I do not speak for my company, they do not pay me enough to.