Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:04:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: mintons@dialogic.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HALP!!!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808171404260.26224-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199808171827.OAA01692@uranus.dialogic.com>
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On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 mintons@dialogic.com wrote: > I am in panic mode, for one thing, that is what FreeBSD advised me to do: > panic: can't mount root > > I have a pentium 166 64mb RAM, 1 SCSI CDROM, and hard drives as follow > > Primary master = 2.5GB IDE DOS/Windoze wd0 > Primary slave = 6.5GB IDE DOS wd1 > Secondary Master = IDE CDROM > Secondary slave = 4.5GB IDE FreeBSD wd3 Reverse these two then try it. It's not wd3, it's wd4 in that position. I'm surprised you can even boot it. > I installed BSD giving it the whole disk, leaving the first partition > open for another OS, not "dangerously dedicated". The fstab points to > wd3s1a, b, e, f as /, swap, /var, and /usr. I am using OSBS and it > starts the booting from wd3, I suppose, since there is no other place > that BSD resides that I can see. Just before the panic message it > says that it is switching root to wd2s1a. There ain't no such > critter. Please help! Could you cc to dukonalake@aol.com Oh, I am > installing from the Walnut Creek CDROM 4 disk set. 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 freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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