From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 19 18:56:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA16733 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 18:56:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfw-ix10.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix10.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA16709 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 18:56:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irv-ca15-22.ix.netcom.com (irv-ca15-22.ix.netcom.com [205.184.2.118]) by dfw-ix10.ix.netcom.com (8.6.13/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA03185 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 18:53:11 -0700 Received: by irv-ca15-22.ix.netcom.com with Microsoft Mail id <01BB2E21.9A9253A0@irv-ca15-22.ix.netcom.com>; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 18:54:14 -0700 Message-ID: <01BB2E21.9A9253A0@irv-ca15-22.ix.netcom.com> From: Manuel Hernandez To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: panic: cannot mount root. Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 18:54:03 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I recently purchased the freeBSD CD-ROM and have installed it on my hard = drive.The installation went ok. All files copied successfully onto BSD = partition from the DOS partition. I beleive that I have my disk geometry set right and my partitions labeled well. The trouble is that now that I have installed it I cannot = get it to boot up.=20 When I start my PC I direct the system through the boot manager = installed by BSD. I choose to boot up BSD. The screen reads. " Booting wd(1,a) / kernel @ 0x1000000" I then see the PC scroll the hardware it senses on the screen. finally it scrolls " changing root device to wd1a " " panic: cannot mount root" ... and then the computer reboots. I think there is something special I = need to type at the " boot: " prompt. Is that correct? =20 I have read several BSD news postings that discribe similiar problems, = and that prompted me to make sure my geometry and partitions are set = correctly. Just in case though I include the information below. I hope = you can help me.=20 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * = * *=20 =20 I have two disk drives, both IDE Western Digitals BSD sees them as = follows: wdc0 : at 0x1F0 - 0x1F7 irq 14 on isa wdc0 : unit 0 (wd0) : wd0 : 1222mb (23038728 sectors) 2484 cyl 16 heads 63 S/T 512 B/S wdc1 : at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa wdc1 : unit 0 (wd2) : wd2 : 610MB (1249920 sectors ) 1240 cyl 16 heads 63 S/T 512 B/S * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * = * *=20 =20 Disk1 is all windows95/dos Disk 2 is dos and Freebsd and is = partitioned as follows. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- offset| size | end | Name | ptype | des | subtype | = flag =20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- =20 0 | 63 | 62 | -- | 6 | unused | 0 | =20 63 | 267057 | 267119 | wd2s1 | 2 | fat | 6 | =20 2767120 | 982800 |1249919 | wd2s2 | 3 | freebsd | 165 | c> -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * = * * =20 The disk labeling is as follows: -------------------------------------------------- Part | Mount | Size | Newfs -------------------------------------------------- =20 wd0s1 | | 1220 MB | DOS wd2s1 | | 130 MB | DOS wd2s2a | / | 32 MB | ufs Y wd2s2b | | 43 MB | swap wd2s2e | /var | 30 MB | ufs Y wd2s2f | /usr | 374 MB ufs Y =09