From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 11 14:47:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA21298 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 May 1996 14:47:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA21290 for ; Sat, 11 May 1996 14:47:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA06896; Sat, 11 May 1996 14:47:01 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605112147.OAA06896@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: partitioned disk, can't hard boot To: garya@ics.com (Gary Aitken) Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 14:47:01 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3194D2C8.162B@ics.com> from "Gary Aitken" at May 11, 96 11:47:52 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 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 [ ... ] > Can anyone give me some clues as to why I can't hard boot > and possible scenarios to fix it? Windows 95 moves some PnP hardware around, and you have BSD set up to find it in the moved place instead of the default place. Turn off PnP in the hardware and jumper/software-config it to the locations expected by Windows95, and the problem should go away. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.