From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 18 11:40:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 569E537BBA4 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:40:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (ales2.megared.net.mx [207.249.163.241]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA56519; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:37:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <048f01bf7a47$f0dac8c0$020a0a0a@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Brad Morgan" , References: <20000213083155.18F3740F4@builder.freebsd.org> Subject: RE: cannot mount root Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:39:58 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Try with "set root_disk_unit=2" , then type "boot" without the quotes, and put the first line in the file "/boot/loader.rc" for keep booting the system without typing it again. P.S. Suppossing your disk its th 2nd one. Have Fun... Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: Brad Morgan To: Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 2:25 AM Subject: cannot mount root > Hello, > > I just installed FreeBSD and the boot process dies at panic: cannot mount > root. > > I followed the directions in the manual and typed: "boot 1:da(0,a)kernel" to > boot from BIOS disk 1 but received the error message: "cannot find "boot > 1:da(0,a)kernel" . Any ideas?? > > Thank you, > > Brad > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message