From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 11 10:48:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA26240 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 May 1996 10:48:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org ([207.40.47.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA26234 for ; Sat, 11 May 1996 10:48:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mofo (mofo.dreamchaser.org [206.230.42.91]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA00483 for ; Sat, 11 May 1996 11:48:04 -0600 Message-ID: <3194D2C8.162B@ics.com> Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 11:47:52 -0600 From: Gary Aitken Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b3 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4c) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: partitioned disk, can't hard boot Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a 2.1 system running on a disk partitioned with the root partition set up for win95 and the second partition for freebsd. If I boot win95 first, then do a soft reboot, I can boot freebsd fine; but if I do a hard reboot (power cycle or reset), freebsd starts the boot process (I get the first few devices identified), but then I get a panic: panic: cannot mount root The system is a Micron P100 using a BusLogic BT946C scsi board with a Conner 1 Gig drive. The disk was partitioned when freebsd was installed, after consolidating existing win95 data. fdisk shows the following: ******* Working on device /dev/rsd0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1030 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=1030 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 0 is: sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) start 32, size 765920 (373 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 373/ sector 32/ head 63 The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 765952, size 1343488 (656 Meg), flag 80 beg: cyl 374/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 32/ head 63 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: Can anyone give me some clues as to why I can't hard boot and possible scenarios to fix it? -- Gary Aitken garya@ics.com (business) garya@dreamchaser.org (personal)