From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 10:45:36 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA19360 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 10:45:36 -0800 Received: from ns1.compusa.com (root@NS1.COMPUSA.COM [198.22.121.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA19352 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 10:45:29 -0800 Received: (from transfer@localhost) by ns1.compusa.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id MAA25936 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 12:34:35 -0600 Received: from nancy.compusa.com (cpallone@nancy.compusa.com [10.9.99.23]) by spider.compusa.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA19102 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 12:18:13 -0600 Received: (from cpallone@localhost) by nancy.compusa.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA12221 for questions%freebsd.org@spider.compusa.com; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 12:23:51 -0600 From: Chris Pallone Message-Id: <199511271823.MAA12221@nancy.compusa.com> Subject: Panic: Cannot mount ROOT To: questions%freebsd.org@compusa.com Date: Mon, 27 Nov 95 12:23:50 CST Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85.2.1] Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 # #==================================================================#