From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 23: 5:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles530.castles.com [208.214.165.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AA881560B; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 23:05:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA23486; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:56:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909070556.WAA23486@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Ben Williams Cc: FreeBSD hackers , FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: new kernel build, bad MSF image In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Sep 1999 20:36:13 EDT." <9858.990906@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 22:56:29 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have only recently begun to use FreeBSD but I consider myself > competent with Linux and I have had FreeBSD installed on my PC for > over a week now and I decided to build a kernel for my machine and get > rid of all the unnecessary drivers and whatnot (like everything SCSI, > the Qcam stuff, PS/2 mouse stuff, etc) and I finally got the kernel to > build after having to fight with it over the definition of the floppy > drive. > Here's the problem: Whenever I attempt to boot my FreeBSD partition > (I'm dual-booting FreeBSD & 98) it goes through all the normal bootup > messages until it mounts the root partition ("changing root device to > wd0s1a") and it immediately complains about "panic: MFS image is > invalid!!" and forces me to reboot. This happens if I use kernel, > kernel.old or kernel.GENERIC. What can I do to fix it? It's hard to see how you could be ending up in this case, since to get that error message you have to have loaded an MFS root image, however the real problem is likely that there is something wrong with the way that you have laid your disk out. If the FreeBSD root filesystem is really wd0s1a, ie. in the first slice of the first IDE disk, it's hard to guess where you've put Windows. If it's not there, then there is something funky with your disk layout which is preventing the loader from finding the right filesystem. What you _don't_ say, and this is a criminal omission, is what you did to cause this. Since you managed to build a kernel at one point, you have had the system working before. If you won't admit to us what you've done to break it, how are we to guess at what might be required to fix it? -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message