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From: Sann Yam <syam@futon.sfsu.edu>
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Subject: Re: can't boot up
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 96 23:28:40 PST
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961113174230.26765F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from "Doug White" at Nov 13, 96 5:43 pm
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> 
> On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Sann Yam wrote:
> 
> >    I'm trying to install the FreeBSD ver 2.1 on my machine, and
> > everytime it boot up to the point after the VGA setting, it says
> > "change root devic to wd1a", and then there's message that says
> > panic, cannot mount root... and then the system gives 15 sec to stop from 
> > rebooting.  EVerytime I get to this point, there always this message
> > to reboot, and the machine reboot itself after the 15 sec.  Can you
> > tell me what is the problme. I tried to disable the conflicts drivers, 
> > but still get that panic message, seem like a kernel's problem that
> > always want to change the mounting.
> 
> Try giving the location explictly through the Boot: prompt instead of
> taking the default.  
> 
> For your system, it would be:
> 
> wd(1,a)/kernel
> 
> To boot a kernel on the second IDE disk.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
> 

Hi Doug,
  yeah, I tried that wd(1,a)/kernel and still get the same rebooting 
message, I forget to mention that I installed on my second drive on D:\
and my c:\ is  DOS.  I partitioned my D:\  for freeBSD, it also has DOS
in there too.


And another thing is, that I have a 1.6 Gig space on my D:\ and when I do
the partitioning , it only shows that I have 1551MB, I think this is the max
DOS can handle and FreeBSD read that info from DOS so it gets the same size,
do  you know if I can configure it to a higher size so it will see that
I have a 1.6 Gig instead of a 1551MB.  In DOS, I actually used the LBA(someeting like that in the BIOS) and it can actually use up to 1.6 gig.

any help would be appreciated,

Thanks,
-Sann,