From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 1: 0: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F4BD15198 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 01:00:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA28887; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 00:59:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 00:59:54 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Don Sutter Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Multiple OS System - Booting FreeBSD 3.3 with LILO In-Reply-To: <016301bf51c7$a95190e0$17fea8c0@don> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: 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: 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message