From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 6 16:39:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA18238 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 16:39:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA18233 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 16:39:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA04272; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 16:39:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 16:39:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Brian A Haskin Jr." cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Panic: cannot mount root In-Reply-To: <19970206.160332.3630.1.BHaskin@juno.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Brian A Haskin Jr. wrote: > After installing 2.2-GAMMA the 2-5-97 snapshot I tried to boot from the > floppy BOOT: prompt with > wd(1,a)/kernel. > > It seemed to find the kernel okay and went through the probe then had the > panic after a message about > switching root to wd1a. Boot using wd(2,a)/kernel or 1:wd(2,a)/kernel To get started, then rebuild your kernel changing the 'kernel' line in the kernel configuration point to root on wd2. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major