Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:05:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: David Petrou <dpetrou@kinclaith.pdl.cs.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: Panic during boot on a new installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980210200347.29893w-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199802110221.SAA03834@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, David Petrou wrote: > Hi. I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE on a P6 but am having > problems fully booting the machine. I checked the FAQ and handbook > and couldn't find anything relevant and I'd appreciate any help on > this. > > This machine has an IDE drive and a SCSI drive. I used a boot disk > and a CDROM to put FreeBSD on the SCSI drive. I put a boot manager on > both drives. > > When I boot the machine, I tell the boot manager to go to the SCSI > drive. Then another boot manager pops up and I tell it to boot > FreeBSD. (As an aside, is there a way to have only one boot manager?) Remove the boot manager from the SCSI drive. > Now I hit enter at the boot prompt, causing the system to load the > kernel from 1:sd(1,a). The kernel starts running, probing devices, > etc. Everything looks good until it tries to change the root device. > The system then panics with "Can't change root device to sd1a" (or > something of that nature). You need to wire down your devices. Pull unnecesary devices from your SCSI chain and build a new kernel with the SCSI IDs wired to the correct devices. See /sys/i386/conf/LINT for details. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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