Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 01:07:28 -0500 From: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: abial@nask.pl Subject: changing root device... Message-ID: <v04003a03b1253bd880f0@[208.140.182.45]> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980305191530.007185ec@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980305205850.14651O-100000@shell.futuresouth .com> <3.0.3.32.19980305180558.006fe258@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com>
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Hi All, I am having a bit of trouble getting FreeBSD to run on my system... I have a DK440LX motherboard, and a SCSI disk. Using the disk images located in <ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/incoming/cam-boot.tgz>, I was able to successfully install. If I do a fixit, and mount /dev/da0a or /dev/da0s1 on /mnt1. Unfortunately, when I try to boot without the floppies, I get the following lines somewhere near where it locates my disk (sometimes it has stuff about my disk in the middle, sometimes before. seems to depend on the boot command): Considering FFS root f/s. changing root devide to wd0a error 6: panic: cannot mount root (2) I have tried specifying the boot device as '0:sd(0,a)/kernel -s' (and several variations), but that doesn't seem to help. It decompresses the kernel, so I am pretty sure it is finding it OK. So, any hints as to why it is doing this? And how to fix it? Unfortunately, I don't have a working FreeBSD system (yet) to be able to go poking around on to find it. Thanks, +C -- Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? Please read this first: <http://www.enigami.com/~ckempf/chipmerchant.html>; Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com <http://www.enigami.com/~ckempf/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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