From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 19 08:09:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA29636 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 08:09:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from imo15.mx.aol.com (imo15.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29618 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 15:08:50 GMT (envelope-from BeroLinux@aol.com) Received: from BeroLinux@aol.com by imo15.mx.aol.com (IMOv14.1) id HUHWa28250 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 11:07:52 -0400 (EDT) From: BeroLinux Message-ID: <8e3ebe7c.353a134a@aol.com> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 11:07:52 EDT To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Trouble booting FreeBSD for the first time Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 66 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I've just installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 from an official FreeBSD CD. Installation worked fine, but I can't boot it. Every time I try booting into FreeBSD, it claims it cannot mount the root filesystem, and resets the computer. I've tried specifying the root partition manually (in several variations, such as "3:sd(3,a)kernel -rrsd1a", "3:sd(3,a) kernel -rsd1a"), with the same outcome. Last output of trying to boot with -v is: imasks: bio c0000400 tty c0038092 net c0038092 BIOS Geometries: 0: 03097f37 0..777=778 cylinders, 0..127=128 heads, 1..63=63 sectors 1: 03117f3f 0..785=786 cylinders, 0..127=128 heads, 1..63=63 sectors 2: 0106fe3f 0..262=263 cylinders, 0..254=255 heads, 1..63=63 sectors 3: 020efe3f 0..526=527 cylinders, 0..254=255 heads, 1..63=63 sectors 4: 00273f20 0..39=40 cylinders, 0..63=64 heads, 1..63=63 sectors 0 accounted for Device configuration finished. considering FFS root f/s. configure() finished. panic: cannot mount root syncing disks: done Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on console to abort. There's probably nothing wrong with the filesystem, as I can mount and access it from Linux without problems ("mount -tufs /dev/sdb5 /mnt"). I'm loading FreeBSD from LILO, as described in the Linux+FreeBSD howto ("other=/dev/sdb5 table=/dev/sdb loader=/boot/chain.b") My system is an AMD K6, 64 MB RAM, 2 IDE disks + 3 SCSI disk, with FreeBSD being on the second SCSI disk (sd1). Any clues? (Please reply to bero@microsoft.sucks.eu.org - I'm not on the list and I do hate the account I'm using to write this message ;) ) LLaP bero To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message