From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 20 11: 6:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.surnet.ru (mobil.surnet.ru [195.54.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EAD0153B4 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:05:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) Received: (from uucgilh@localhost) by mobil.surnet.ru (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with UUCP id XAA04910; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:54:29 +0600 (UDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id XAA00995; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:30:52 +0600 Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by localhost.cgu.chel.su (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA00736; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:16:54 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.cgu.chel.su: ilia owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:16:54 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine X-Sender: ilia@localhost.cgu.chel.su To: "Bond, Jeffery" Cc: "'alan17@wizard.net'" , "'FreeBSD questions'" Subject: RE: Disappointment with FreeBSD :-( In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG when it reboots with 'panic, cannot mount root', try to go to the "diskXXX>" prompt (during countdown press any key) and type 'set ....root_dir...=2' (i do not remember exactly, type 'help'). that's it ! Regards, (Наилучшие пожелания) Ilia Chipitsine (Илья Шипицин) On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Bond, Jeffery wrote: > Hi Alan, > > I reckon it's a bug in FreeBSD also because I had the same problem ages ago. > I believe there is some file in the root directory that you can edit, but > that didn't work for me. I hate to say it, but Redhat 6 is far easier to > install in my opinion. > > Try moving your secondary master onto the primary controller as a slave and > see if that works. The way I got round it was to boot it using 'wd2a' (or > similar) at the Boot: prompt, and then recompiling the kernel with the root > fs hard coded to wd2a. I'm no expert at this, maybe Doug White can help??? > > By the way, if you can mount and read the FreeBSD root fs using linux, what > does your /etc/fstab say? Does that say that root is on wd2a? > > Jeff > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: alan17@wizard.net [SMTP:alan17@wizard.net] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 2:49 PM > > To: Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk > > Subject: Disappointment with FreeBSD :-( > > > > Hi, Jeff, Now I can't even get my mail to questions@freebsd.org! > > > > Could you forward this on please? Thanks, Alan > > > > I am still having problems with booting FreeBSD, despite much > > anguish and trial. > > > > As I previously reported: When I turn on my machine, and enter "bsd" > > at the LILO prompt, BSD certainly seems to be booting. The screen > > messages start with "Loading bsd . . . " and continue on, using a lot > > of terminology that a 'umble Linuxian like meself cannot fathom. But at > > the end of the process, here are the lines that appear on the screen: > > changing root device to wd1s1a > > changing root device to wd1a > > error 6: panic: cannot mount root (2) > > syncing disks . . . done > > > > and then I am offered the chance to reboot. > > > > It seems _extremely_ strange to me that the BSD kernel, installed on > > my secondary IDE master, at the beginning of the 6.3 gig hard drive, > > thinks that its root partition is on the primary master. Indeed I would > > call this a bug in the booting procedure. > > > > I also find it passing strange that there are AFAIK no boot/root floppy > > pairs for BSD. We've had these in Linux for aeons. > > > > I have just upgraded my Linux kernel to 2.2.10, and I've compiled in > > support for just about every file system that is offered, including > > UFS. And I can, from Linux, mount the first partition(=slice?) of > > my FreeBSD installation, and read/write files there. > > > > So I have two questions: > > > > 1. Can anyone suggest an addendum to my lilo.conf that would enable the > > "stupid" FreeBSD boot procedure to find where the '/' partition is? > > [ Here is the relevant part of my lilo.conf: > > # BSD bootable partition config begins > > other = /dev/hdc1 > > label = bsd > > table = /dev/hdc > > loader = /boot/chain.b > > # BSD bootable partition config ends > > ] > > > > 2. Is there any thing that I can write/delete to, e.g. the stuff in my > > FreeBSD /boot directory that will help the FreeBSD boot properly? I > > can, as stated, read/write in the FreeBSD directories because I can > > mount and read/write the UFS files. > > > > Do the Free BSD developers read this E-list? Has any developer any > > remedy to suggest? > > > > TIA for help! > > > > Continuing to struggle . . > > > > Alan > > > > -- > > Alan McConnell If it can't be abused, it's not freedom. > > Pixel Analysis Do not destroy what you cannot create.(L. Szilard) > > alan17@wizard.net What a giftless bastard! (Tchaikovsky, about Brahms) > > > 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