Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 21:12:22 -0500 From: "Steve" <steve@piperscreek.com> To: "freebsdquestions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: error 6 panic / can't boot root Message-ID: <002d01bf0956$e9efaf60$1e1d5bcf@steve>
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Bummer huh... reading 'the book' The Complete FreeBSD.. on my page 102 re: panic: cannot mount root.. says "1. You have two IDE disks, each configured as the master on their respective IDE busses. You have no disk on the primary slave position (you might have a CD-ROM drive there). FreeBSD is on the second disk. The BIOS sees these as disk 0 and disk 1, while FreeBSD see them as ws0 and wd2, in other words disk 2. To tell the loader how to find it, stop it before booting and enter: disk1s1a:> boot 1:wd(2,a)kernel" Ok.. this describes my situation as best as I can see it. But.. 'stop it before booting' ok.. how do I do that? I have run both drives and gotten to a prompt boot: and then entered the above booting info.. it did not work on mine.. just said same error. If I understood the book correctly it said to put the above boot directives into a file call /boot.config I did that but was not conviced that was the right location/file name. At any rate.. same error.. error 6 panic can't mount root. As long as I run the single HD that bsd is on, everything is fine.. but.. how to get my pc to boot properly. Ideas? Thoughts? much appreciated. Thanks as usual To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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