From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 22 14:12: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hudsucker.gamespot.com (hudsucker.gamespot.com [206.169.18.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E0941103A for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:12:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jsd@gamespot.com) Received: from gamespot.com (localhost.gamespot.com [127.0.0.1]) by hudsucker.gamespot.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA00452 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:12:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36D1D633.4CB92339@gamespot.com> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:12:03 +0000 From: Jon Drukman Organization: GameSpot, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: panic: cannot mount root Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG just upgraded to 3.1-RELEASE from 2.2.7-RELEASE. installation went smoothly. however, i am unable to boot kernels that i have compiled. with the line: config kernel root on da0 the boot sequence halts like this: changing root to da0s1a changing root to da0a error 6: panic: cannot mount root (2) i edited /etc/fstab before booting. it looks like this: /dev/da0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/da0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/da0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 i can boot just fine with kernel.GENERIC. just my own kernels won't boot. i also tried config kernel root on da0s1a but that gave the same panic. while booted with kernel.GENERIC, here is the result of df: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 31775 24940 4293 85% / /dev/da0s1f 1834946 1432923 255228 85% /usr /dev/da0s1e 29727 5952 21397 22% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc as far as i can tell, da0s1a is the root filesystem and that's what should be booting. here's dmesg (when booted with kernel.GENERIC): changing root device to da0s1a da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 2047MB (4194058 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 261C) -- Jon Drukman jsd@gamespot.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Fear the government that fears your computer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message