From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 5 10:55:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA01929 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 10:55:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA01924 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 10:55:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA05164; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 12:54:54 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 12:54:54 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Matthew cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot. In-Reply-To: <3437B67D.167EB0E7@aone.com.au> 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 Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Matthew wrote: > Hi. > I have been trying to install FreeBSD on the secondary master HDD in > my computer. > > The boot loader is also working from the second HDD. The Kernal appears > to get loaded, it gets to the end of the load and says, panic, can't > mount root. > > Using the fixit floppy I am able to mount the root partition and see all > the files.. All looks fine. Looking at fstab the partition labels look > fine. Just to be on the safe side I have gone and changed the root > partition to /dev/wd just about everything. > > The labeling part of the install says root should be /dev/wd2s1a.. Tried > it.. When I first looked at fstab it was set to /dev/wd2a. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I believe you'll have to compile a custom kernel for this. Looking through my kernel config file.... {/usr/src/sys/i386/conf} root@mortis: %cat MORTIS | grep root config kernel root on wd0 I think you need to compile a new kernel that will look for root in wd2 (I think it's 2; sec master). If you have the source install, you can boot with the fixit, do all the mounts and fscks manually, and compile a new kernel with config kernel root on wd2 And that should do it. If you don't have the src installed, you should be able to boot up and install at least the sys (kernel) source. > > -- > Matthew > Access One Help Desk > > > The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled, > was convincing the world that he did not exist. > --Keiser Soze-- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * FreeBSD: turning PCs into workstations * | Windows: turning workstations into typewriters | * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*