From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 22 21:54:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA16425 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:54:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA16416 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA06376; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:54:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:54:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: jfielden@geocities.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel config problems... In-Reply-To: <3425A9B1.1FD7432B@houseofduck.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Joshua Fielden wrote: > ...I'm sure I saw this a while ago, but when I searched the archives, I > came up zilch... > I configured a kernel, with the following option: > > config kernel root on wd0 > > I have two EIDE hard drives on two seperate busses, on a BSD-only setup, > and when I compile the kernel and install I get the > following error: > > Panic: Nobody wants to mount my root for me. > Press any key on the console to reboot That's new, it usually just says panic: can't mount root > After the device probe. > > Now I know I'm missing something basic, but I can't think what it is, > and have been staring at my monitor for too many hours, anyone got a > solution? What disk are you booting from? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo