From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 8 20:31:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA13927 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 20:31:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailman.naxs.com (MAILMAN.naxs.com [206.31.102.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13888 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 20:31:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peabody@naxs.com) Received: from excalibur ([151.199.88.52]) by mailman.naxs.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO205-101c) ID# 0-42723U8000L3500S0) with SMTP id AAA242 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 23:32:34 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980608233124.0093d100@mail.naxs.com> X-Sender: peabody@mail.naxs.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 23:31:24 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ben Compton Subject: Booting Problems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.6 on my Dell P-II 300MHz machine and I really found the install to be painless. I am having a problem however when I try to boot. I have installed BSD on my second hard drive and am using Windows NT's OS Loader to boot BSD (I was able to do this thanks to a handy little program called Bootpart) The system appears to boot just fine it chefcks all my drives and so forth but the stops with this message "Panic can't mount root" the system then reboots. Has anyone got any ideas? I didn't use and of the bootmanagers that came with my BSD CDs and I chose the option to leave my MBR untouched since I would be using the NT OS Loader on my primary drive to boot BSD on my secondary drive. Any and all help would be appreciated. Ben Compton peabody@naxs.com PS If anyone is interested in downloading Bootpart it can be found at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm Hope someone finds it useful. Windows 95: n. 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message