From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 16:52:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99434153A1 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 16:52:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA13465; Tue, 25 May 1999 16:52:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 16:52:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Albert C. Uy" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root partition In-Reply-To: <1F2F1BE7441@mail.dlsu.edu.ph> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 May 1999, Albert C. Uy wrote: > A pleasant day to you all. i'm pretty much new to freebsd, and i > am having a few problems with its installation. sirst, the setup: > i have two hard drives, w/ win95 & linux installed on it. the second > drive is dedicated to freebsd. > > i installed via (bootable) CDROM, and went on with the > instalation without any problems. To enable multibooting > win95/linux/freebsd, i modified the lilo.conf and ran lilo again. > > i was able to boot the freebsd partition, but the kernel seems to > look for the root partition on wd1s1a(in my case, tht should be > something like wd2a/wd2s1a, right?) more accurately, the message was > > > mounting root partition on wd1s1a.... > : > kernel panic: cannot mount root > : > ....automatic reboot in 15 seconds... > Read the FAQ. Your CD is interlaced between the hard disks and the FreeBSD bootloader hates that. http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ You didn't say what version of FreeBSD you're on. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message