From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 4 13:10:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA23459 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 May 1996 13:10:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net (smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA23454 for ; Sat, 4 May 1996 13:10:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id UAA106773 for ; Sat, 4 May 1996 20:10:46 GMT Received: from slip166-72-218-98.il.us.ibm.net(166.72.218.98) by smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net via smap (V1.3mjr) id smaAAUDmb; Sat May 4 20:10:36 1996 Message-ID: <318BB959.11E9@ibm.net> Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 15:08:57 -0500 From: Jeff Genender Organization: Savoir Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PANIC: Cannot mount root X-URL: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello to anybody: I realllllllyyyyy need some help. I have installed ( and this is no joke or lie) FreebSD 42 times on my computer trying every configuration under the sun and I now believe I am either going crazy, missing a configuration, or have one of those quarky systems that won't let FreeBSD run. Any how, I have a Gateway 2000 Pentium 90Mhz with 40 Mb RAM a 1Gig EIDE drive with a Mitsumi EIDE CD Rom, and an Adaptec 1542CF with 2 1Gig hard drives. The system is set up as follows: EIDE ---- 1 Gig Hard Drive - 1 Partition with DOS, Windows 95, and Windows NT. Uses the Windows NT loader. Mitsumi EIDE CD - FX400 Adaptec 1542CF -------------- Drive 1 (SCSI 0) (0x81) - Known as the 'D:' drive and is one large extended Dos partition. Drive 2 (SCSI 1) (0x82) - First 600 MB partitioned as NTFS drive and the Next 405MB partitioned as FreeBSD The problem is, I can install FreeBSD without any problem. I then go to boot (with the floppy) and type in sd(1,a)/kernel (for the second drive) and it does nothing. I then type in sd(2,a)/kernel and it begins to boot and I then get the famous 'PANIC: Cannot mount root'. I have tried booting with every type of combination and I still get the PANIC message. In addition, I tried to erase the NTFS partition and give the whole drive to FreeBSD. No luck, same message. I have also tried swapping SCSI logical numbers (making the second disk SCSI 0 and the first disk SCSI 1), but as you probably already guessed, no luck again. The only other think I can think of is that maybe the disk itself will need to boot. If this is true, how can I get the boot manager (the one that comes with FreeBSD of course) boot this drive from the C drive? It won't even recognize that FreeBSD is on the SCSI second drive. Does anyone have any ideas? I will try anything that I already haven't done. Thanks!!!!!!!! Jeff Genender jgenend@ibm.net -- //Jeff Genender //Savoir Technologies //jgenend@ibm.net // //"Providing Systems Solutions to Business" -- //Jeff Genender //Savoir Technologies //jgenend@ibm.net // //"Providing Systems Solutions to Business"