Date: Mon, 27 Nov 95 12:23:50 CST From: Chris Pallone <cpallone@nancy.compusa.com> To: questions%freebsd.org@compusa.com Subject: Panic: Cannot mount ROOT Message-ID: <199511271823.MAA12221@nancy.compusa.com>
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I have not had a lot of time to work this problem out on my own; but knowing the brain power behind freeBSD, I figure this should be a simple problem to fix. I just wiped out my system and started over this past weekend. On a 814MB IDE hard drive I created a 200MB FAT (For windows95) partition, a 1MB OS/2 Boot Manager Partition, and a 200MB FAT (OS/2 Warp) partition. The remaining 413MB is free space on the 814MB IDE H.D. In addition I have two 85MB SCSI HDs unallocated. At this point I wanted to load freeBSD 2.0.5r back on my system; but use the OS/2 boot manager to start FreeBSD. This is what I tried: I created a primary 25MB partition on the first 85MB SCSI HD using OS/2s fdisk program. I added this partition to the OS/2 boot manager then rebooted with a FreeBSD boot disk. With FreeBSD I removed the partition OS/2 created and created a new FreeBSD partition of the same size. I created a 413MB partition of the remaining space on the IDE drive, and created 5 smaller partitions of the remaining space on the 2 SCSI drives. After I labled the dirves I had this setup: IDE: 200MB FAT 1MB BOOT MANAGER 200MB FAT 413MB <- /usr SCSI 1: 25MB <- / (OS/2 Boot Manager knows this one) 20MB <- /tmp 20MB <- /var 20MB <- swap SCSI 2: 40MB <- /users (Sorry worked on HPs too long) 65MB <- swap At this point I committed my choices to the CD ROM install program and the system began to install. There were know problems during the installation process. When I rebooted I received the OS/2 boot manager screen with the FreeBSD option I had setup. I selected FreeBSD and received the FreeBSD boot prompt. Pressed enter to take the defaults and it took off. I received all the normal systems polls; but when the polls were complete and the system tries to start mounting the filesystems I was presented the message 'Panic cannot mount root' and the system reboots. I did not provide all the Hardware specifics because I do not think this is a hardware issue. If anything, I missed a step or this is not a possible solution. If you need further info let me know. And if all else fails, I will blow away the OS/2 boot manager and use booteasy. #==================================================================# # Christopher S. Pallone | Unix Production Control Tech. # # CompUSA - Corporate Office | email: cpallone@compusa.com # # 14951 North Dallas Parkway | Voice: 214-982-4110 # # Dallas TX 75240 | Fax: 214-982-4656 # #==================================================================#
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