From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 8 03:58:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA16412 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 03:58:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from doxx.net (arsenic.doxx.net [209.77.122.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA16404 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 03:58:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bonga@doxx.net) Received: (qmail 13957 invoked by uid 585); 8 Dec 1998 12:56:14 -0000 Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 04:56:14 -0800 (PST) From: Mian Nawaz Sharif Reply-To: Mian Nawaz Sharif To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: hardware upgrade gone awry Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i just upgraded from a 100 mhz intel to an amd k6-2 350 3d processor and tyan S1590 m/board. along with that, i also got a new hard drive. my kernel is probably around 2-3 weeks old. now my problem: earlier, my freebsd hard drive was wd1. since it wasn't the master drive, i was using a floppy disk to get to the boot prompt, and then entering wd(1,a)kernel to boot it up, and it worked fine. now, i seem to be having a major problem with it for some reason. when i type in the same command at the boot prompt, i start loading up the kernel, and then i get this: changing root devicee to wd1s1a changing root device to wd1a error 6: panic: can not mount root (2) and then the system reboots. during this time, i dont see wd1 show up in the 'dmesg' stuff that scrolls by as the kernel looks for various devices, but i can get the / partitions listing by typing `wd(1,a)?` at the boot prompt. my question: is there some way that i can fix the problem, and if not that, access my drive and move some stuff off it onto a dos fat32 partition on the other drive, so i can just do a clean install? thank you for your help, :) saad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message