From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 30 07:04:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA23440 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 07:04:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sail.wantabe.com (portal.wantabe.com [209.16.44.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA23434 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 07:04:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeffrl@wantabe.com) Received: from helm.wantabe.com (helm.wantabe.com [209.16.8.11]) by sail.wantabe.com (8.8.5/8.7.1) with SMTP id JAA03885 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 09:03:09 -0500 (CDT) Received: by helm.wantabe.com with Microsoft Mail id <01BDD3F5.01C0C220@helm.wantabe.com>; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 09:03:08 -0500 Message-ID: <01BDD3F5.01C0C220@helm.wantabe.com> From: "Jeffrey J. Libman" To: "'freebsd-questions'" Subject: re: cannot mount root Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 09:03:06 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id HAA23436 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i just installed freeBSD for the first time. i am quite experiences with unix, i run a very small isp, and i am evaluating freeBSD as a replacement for my bsdi operating systems. conditions: i installed on my desktop computer, which has windoze running on the primary ide drive. i installed another (1.2gb) ide drive as master on the secondary ide channel, with the atapi cd-rom as slave. this computer has an amd k6 (pentium 233/mmx) with 32mb of edo ram. i am installing freeBSD 2.2.7 from the walnut creek cdrom media. i booted the cd-rom, and following instructions, installed basic system (binaries only for first run) on the 1.2gb drive. when finished, it re-booted....(it put the boot magager only on the drive 2) and said it could not mount root. any help is greatly appreciated. cheers, jeff | |\ +-------------------+ Jeffrey J. Libman, ops. mgr. | \ | Wantabe, Inc. | Wantabe, Inc. |__\ +-------------------+ jeffrl@wantabe.com <-----|------> | www ftp news mail | (281) 493-0718 __,.-=\'`^`'~=-../__,.-= +-------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message