From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 23 12: 4:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout07.btx.dtag.de (mailout07.btx.dtag.de [194.25.2.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D118814A0D for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:04:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Oliver.Zinke@t-online.de) Received: from fwd01.btx.dtag.de ([194.25.2.161]) by mailout07.btx.dtag.de with smtp id 11qMAj-00064Q-00; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:04:17 +0100 Received: from t-online.de (095644559-0003(btxid)@[62.158.33.45]) by fwd01.btx.dtag.de with smtp id ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:02:48 +0100 Message-ID: <383AF44B.8071E0AA@t-online.de> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:08:43 +0100 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [de] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: troubleshooting Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 095644559-0003@t-dialin.net From: Oliver.Zinke@t-online.de (Oliver Zinke) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey Guys, I'm from Germany and just bought the current FreeBSD 3.3 release. Actually, I'd like to see my system working on my Intel/386 machine but due to some strange mistakes I don't have any success at all. The problem is: I use two IDE-Hard Disks described as wd0 and wd1. The first disk is occupied by WIN95 and LINUX, the second one is completely empty. Well, I used fdisk to create a slice of 3GB addressed as wd1s1a and divided it into three partitions: 500 MB for / 496 MB for swap 2000M for /usr After editing the disklabel and adding the bootmanager I finished and installed my customized distribution. Well, and now the system always changes the root device to wd0s1a where it obviously doesn't find anything and cries "panic: cannot mount root (2)". This is followed by a reboot. I tried to unload the kernel and reload it with arguments such as "boot kernel -wd1s1a", "boot kernel -1:wd1s1a" etc. Now I don't know what to do 'cause it is impossible to set an R-flag for a slice in the fdisk manager. Well,I hope you have an idea that'll help me out. Thanks for your efforts. Oliver Zinke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message