Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 20:17:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Eric Lesniewski <al359@osfn.rhilinet.gov> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Seagate Barracuda won't Burn! Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961024201701.15070F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199610221538.LAA26998@osfn.rhilinet.gov>
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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
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