From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 16:48:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01003 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:21:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06699 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:28:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA22726; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 23:06:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 23:06:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jeff Daigle cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: little problem.... In-Reply-To: <000701bd1e4a$5051e740$2396aec7@default> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Jeff Daigle wrote: > i just downloaded freebsd and i installed it off of a ms-dos partition, it installed without error, then i exited the sysinstall program rebooted and it started the boot manager up.. i hit f1 which loads freebsd, it started listing all of my devices then it said > > panic: connot mount root Did I answer this already? If you get the message: panic: Cannot mount root At the end of the probe sequence you should either: 1. Have the line: config kernel root on wd2 in your kernel config, OR: 2. Rename the second disk to wd1 in the kernel config (comment out the original wd1 line and change the wd2 line to read wd1, leaving all other parameters unchanged). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major