From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 14 13:27:49 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 1725315756 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:27:46 -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 NAA00783; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:25:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:25:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Bob Fritz Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I get a ``panic: cant mount root'' error when rebooting the system after installation. In-Reply-To: <371274E0.2CB913B4@us.oracle.com> 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 Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Bob Fritz wrote: > I get this error after installing 3.1 on a dedicated scsi drive. The PC > has 1 IDE Drive (bios 0) and 3 scsi drives, scsi id's 0,1 and 2. BSD is > installed on scsi id 2. What boot string should I use to boot the OS? Ack, you didn't have to quote the actual FAQ, just the question number would have been okay :-) My guess is that you'll need the boot string da(2,a)kernel 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