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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:37:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Problems mounting root
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Replying to your self not once but twice looks kinda funny in the message
list. :-)

Anyway, I can help you; this is probably the number one thing I deal with
on this list.  Which is why I have boilerplate.  :-)

On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Bond, Jeffery wrote:

> I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a partition on my PC. I have two hard
> disks, one primary master, one secondary master. I have set aside a
> partition on the secondary master for FreeBSD, the rest is for Win95.

There is your problem -- the system doesn't number the disks properly if
you have a device in the middle (like a CD).  

 If you get the message:
panic: Cannot mount root

At the end of the probe sequence you should either:
1. Have the line:
config kernel root on wd2

in your kernel config,
OR:

2. Rename the second disk to wd1 in the kernel config (comment out the 
original wd1 line and change the wd2 line to read wd1, leaving all other 
parameters unchanged).


Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major