From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 6 19:54:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA03320 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 19:54:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from cam.grad.kiev.ua (grad-UTC-28k8.ukrtel.net [195.5.25.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA03297 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 19:54:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua) Received: from Shevchenko.kiev.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cam.grad.kiev.ua (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA21951; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 05:51:01 GMT Message-ID: <34B1C639.F1E27773@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 05:50:51 +0000 From: Ruslan Shevchenko X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rp2 CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem Mounting Kernal References: <199801070324.WAA22077@eagle.freespace.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- @= //RSSH mailto://Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA