Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 05:50:51 +0000 From: Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> To: Rp2 <rp2@freespace.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem Mounting Kernal Message-ID: <34B1C639.F1E27773@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> References: <199801070324.WAA22077@eagle.freespace.net>
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Rp2 wrote:
> Hello Sir or Madame:
>
> I am having huge problems getting freebsd up on my system. We are
> installing the OS on a system with
> 2 HD 1 3.5 gig Fujitsu (used for win95) and a 1.7 Gig Segate Drive (both
> IDE) used for FreeBSD (also has a 200 meg partion on it for dos stuff...
>
> Anyhow, the installation looks successful, however, when booting for the
> first time I get a "panic: cannont mount root" message, then the system
> reboots. I tried everything, and we went trough the help files
> numerously.... Any idea of what we could be doing wrong... I setup the
> kernal, the disk geomitry is ok (I tried both using LBA mode and normal
> mode)...
>
> anyhow, all out of ideas... Please help me if you can.
>
1. when booting, kernel fond you disks as wd0 ?2. can you boot in
single-user mode ?
3. after booting from fixit floppy can you mount /dev/wd0-YOU-ROOT by hand
?
4. Are you setup FreeBSD on PRIMARY partition ?
> Thanks
>
> Richard
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