From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 23:53:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA28816 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 23:53:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA28794 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 23:53:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id UAA14851 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 20:17:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA15107; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 20:17:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 20:17:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Eric Lesniewski cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Seagate Barracuda won't Burn! In-Reply-To: <199610221538.LAA26998@osfn.rhilinet.gov> 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 Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Eric Lesniewski wrote: > I'm running Win95 on drive 1, an IDE. I'm installing 2.1.5 freebsd on > drive 2, SCSI ST2550W. After countless failed attempts at mathematical > geometry using 7.844238 as the dividing rule for the partition (M), and > failure at fooling even my computer into thinking that it has a small > MS-DOS partition at the beginning, (in hopes of the geometry becoming > detected), I've decided to exclusively install freebsd to drive 2 without > sharing any other operating systems. The bootmngr installs to drive 2, remnants remnants of booteasy remain on drive 1, (cool), I think, for now I can > actually use drive 2, but, alas, the boot procedure for drive 2 brings me > to the dreaded "can't mount root" panic msg. Why? I gave up on geometry > and chose exclusive use of drive 2 for freebsd. SCSI + IDE = can't mount root Give the disk explicity to the boot: prompt and it should work, until you can recompile the kernel, edit the kernel line, and point it in the right direction. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major