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Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 1999 00:59:54 -0800 (PST)
From:      Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To:        Don Sutter <drs@hevanet.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Multiple OS System - Booting FreeBSD 3.3 with LILO
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912290055330.28631-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
In-Reply-To: <016301bf51c7$a95190e0$17fea8c0@don>

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On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Don Sutter wrote:

> Well, something exciting happens each time I upgrade FreeBSD.  I just 
installed FreeBSD 3.3 on a system that is host to several operating 
systems and now I can't seem to boot FreeBSD 3.3 from LILO (Caldera 2.3) - 
panic: cannot mount root.  The error log and lilo.conf files are attached.  
Would somebody please help me *and* is there a better place to be looking 
for answers to this kind of problem?

Wrap lines at 74 characters of so--otherwise we have to do it for you.

Anyway, you're booting from three drives.  Maybe this is possible--the
bios offers two ide drives and then the scsi controller takes over.  I
have a setup right now that can boot FreeBSD from a third scsi drive, but
I'm assuming it's sort of a fluke.

Also I wonder whether it would work if you used da instead of sda on the
FreeBSD drive device.

Annelise
> 
> -------------- drive configuration ---------------
> 
> Disk 1 (BIOS Drive 0x80) - IDE - Disk is dedicated to Windows 95
> (/dev/hda)
> 
> Disk 2 (BIOS Drive 0x81) - IDE - Two systems on this disk:
> 
>         First Partition - Redhat Linux 6.0 (/dev/hdb1)
>         Second Partition - Caldera 2.3 (/dev/hdb2)
> 
> Disk 3 (BIOS Drive 0x82) - SCSI - Disk is dedicated to FreeBSD
> (/dev/sda)
> 
> -------------- error log ---------------
> 
> Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> changing root device to da2s1a
> changing root device to da2ada0 at aha1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <MICROP 1528-15MD1066701 DD24> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-CCS device
> da0: 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 8)
> da0: 1280MB (2621688 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 1280C)
> cd0 at aha1 bus 0 target 5 lun 0
> cd0: <NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:500 2.5> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device
> cd0: 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 8)
> cd0: cd present [329606 x 2048 byte records]
> error 6: panic: cannot mount root (2)
> 
> syncing disks... done
> Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
> 
> -------------- /etc/lilo.conf ---------------
> 
> #
> # general section
> #
> boot = /dev/hda
> install = /boot/boot.b
> message = /boot/message
> prompt
> 
> # wait 5 seconds (200 10ths) for user to select the entry to load
> timeout = 50
> 
> default = 3
> vga = normal
> 
> disk = /dev/hda
>         bios = 0x80
> disk = /dev/hdb
>         bios = 0x81
> disk = /dev/sda
>         bios = 0x82
> 
> other = /dev/hda1
>         label = dos
>         table = /dev/hda
> 
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
>         label = 1
>         root = /dev/hdb1
>         read-only
> 
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
>         label = 2
>         root = /dev/hdb2
>         read-only
> 
> other = /dev/sda1
>         label = 3
>         table = /dev/sda
>         loader = /boot/chain.b
> 



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