From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 19 0:39:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bastuba.partitur.se (bastuba.partitur.se [193.219.246.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3134B14E9B for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:39:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeppe@partitur.se) Received: from partitur.se (xylofon.partitur.se [193.219.246.251]) by bastuba.partitur.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25743 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:37:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jeppe@partitur.se) Message-ID: <37BBB42E.12ACDE2D@partitur.se> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:37:19 +0200 From: Jesper Blomstrom Organization: KTH/Partitur X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Big problem for me, not for you? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have installed FreeBSD on a separate harddisk, and my other disk contains Windows. TheWindows-disk is set to primary master and the FreeBSD-disk is set to primary slave. I have also installed a bootMGR. If I want to run Windows everything is o.k, and Windows starts without problem. But I do not want to run Windows ;) and when I choose FreeBSD it seems to boot normal but then it fails with the error: Panic:cant mount root I understand that this error comes from confusion between the boot blockīs and the kernelīs understanding of the disk devices. I have therefore tried to stop the OS from booting and at the boot-prompt I have tried to start the system with the following combinations: 1:wd(1,a)kernel = This one I think is the correct way to boot, but it fails with the messages: Changing root device to wd1s1a Swapon: /dev/wd0s1: Invalid argument Automatic reeboot in progress Canīt open /dev/wd0s1a: Invalid argument Canīt check file system Unexpected Inconsistency Automatic file system check faild, HELP! Then the os wants me to show him the path to another shell the Bourne-Shell but if I want to use sh I shall press return. If I then try to run stand/sysinstall I get the message Error opening terminal: cons25 1:wd(2,a)kernel = panic:cant mount root... ( it boots ) 1:wd(0,a)kernel = panic:cant mount root... ( it boots ) Everything else generates something with "wrong labels" ( does not boot ) What should I do and how should I do it? If you can help me I shall never use another OS then FreeBSD, promise! / Many Greetings from Sweden Jesper Blomstroem To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message