From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 22 22:13:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA17646 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 22:13:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from houseofduck.ml.org (geo-160.remote.dti.net [206.252.145.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA17641 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 22:13:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from houseofduck.ml.org (localhost.ml.org [127.0.0.1]) by houseofduck.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA18173 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 01:15:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3425FEF2.1F95FDD5@houseofduck.ml.org> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 01:15:31 -0400 From: Joshua Fielden Organization: GeoCities X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02b7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-970903-RELENG i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel config problems... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The first disk, /dev/wd0a Doug White wrote: > > 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 -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual life-threatening emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you would not have been informed. -- Joshua Fielden, Systems Administrator, GeoCities http://www.geocities.com jfielden@geocities.com I do not speak for my company, they do not pay me enough to.