From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 3 01:50:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA14202 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 01:50:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA14197 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 01:50:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id LAA03032; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 11:50:21 +0300 (IDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma003029; Sun Aug 3 11:50:05 1997 Message-ID: <33E445F2.6FF7@barcode.co.il> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 11:48:50 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chad Monteith CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, chad@pobox.com Subject: Re: Boot panics References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chad Monteith wrote: > > Greetings: > I successfully installed FreeBSD on one of my HD's, but when it > boots it panics becuase it cannot find the root partition. Here is my > setup: > on IDE Port 0: Master IDE Drive (WD), Slave IDE CDROM > on IDE Port 1: IDE Drive (WD) with FreeBSD on it > The system reports the BSD Drive as wd2 (Which it is). I have tried > placing these parameters at boot time: wd(2,a)kernel > I know it can reasd the drive, as the boot can read the root partition, > and it runs all the setup config programs, it just does not boot the root > partition. > Any and all assistance will be greatly appreciated. > Please CC a response to chad@pobox.com or I may not get it! > Thanks for your time. > > -Chad Try giving the line: 1:wd(2,a)/kernel at the Boot: prompt. Nadav