Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:23:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Robert C. Hill" <rchill@wf.quik.com> Cc: FBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SCSI install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807201622420.16885-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <000c01bdb202$6b6e2060$1439a8c0@barsoom.rchill.net>
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On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Robert C. Hill wrote: > Hello ppl, > > At the beginning of this week my 4 year old 340m IDE hard drive that I had > FreeBSD on gave up the ghost. I was given an old file server and I > cannibalized it's 630m SCSI hard drive and Adaptec AHA-1542B host adapter. > This is the first SCSI stuff that I have ever installed on a system. The > system that I put it into has a 1.6g IDE drive (primary master) with Win95. > The install went well and I used Win95 to format and check out the SCSI > drive. The install of FreeBSD `dangerously dedicated' to the SCSI drive > seemed to go well. But, after boot initializes everything I keep getting > this error message on the console; > > panic! Cannot mount root! Dual IDE/SCSI systems confuse the boot blocks sometimes. Try typing 1:sd(0,a)/kernel at the Boot: prompt. If that isn't working for you, post the boot messages, particularly the SCSI controller and disk probes. 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
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