From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 19 15:29: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138B2151BD for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:28:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reichman@twcny.rr.com) Received: from twcny.rr.com ([24.95.188.113]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.2 release 221 ID# 0-53939U80000L80000S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 18:27:25 -0400 Message-ID: <37BC8707.C925F32D@twcny.rr.com> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 18:36:55 -0400 From: "Mark S. Reichman" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesper Blomstrom , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big problem for me, not for you? References: <37BBB42E.12ACDE2D@partitur.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is your swap partition on wd1 or wd0.. See below.. Jesper Blomstrom wrote: > > 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 It seems to have found your root partition OK.. No errors.. > Swapon: /dev/wd0s1: Invalid argument > Automatic reeboot in progress > Canīt open /dev/wd0s1a: Invalid argument Isnt your swap partition on wd1 not wd0... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message