From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 20:48:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA20148 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 20:48:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.152]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA20133 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 20:48:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA00489; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 20:48:55 -0700 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 20:48:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Ping Mai cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HELP: mounting root from 2nd partition of scsi disk In-Reply-To: <199606251428.HAA22243@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Ping Mai wrote: > I am having problem boot fbsd from the 2nd partition of my first scsi > disk. This is an 486 system with an IDE drive. the scsi disk is on an > adaptec 2842, scsi id 4. I compiled the kernel with "root on sd0b", > did a fbsdboot -rD c:\kernel, it went through and probed the scsi > controller and disk, then it complained about not being able to mount > root, then it panic. I am using FreeBSD-2.4-stable which I downloaded > end of May. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong? Um, you told it that the kernel was on the swap partition. it should be "root on sd0" and that should be sufficient. > also, when I compile the kernel without "controller eisa0" and > "controller pci0", it does even look for 284x. why? doesn't or does? you need to turn off the device too; it'll probe anyway. I'm surprised it compiled without those options. Why would you want to do that. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major