From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 14:27:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01395 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 14:27:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01265 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 14:26:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA29097; Wed, 20 May 1998 14:26:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 14:26:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "John H. Barbee" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root on second slice In-Reply-To: <9805201757.AA00389@pom-unix1.pomona.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 20 May 1998, John H. Barbee wrote: > if the root fs is sitting on the second slice of the harddisk how should the > config directive in the kernel be written? No additional changes are necessary unless you have multiple FreeBSD slices on one disk. > right now thsi is teh error i receive upon startup, panic: can't find anyone > to mount root for me. That's a different error. Could I see the boot message output? > and this happened right after i loaded my custom kernel. Perhaps you forgot to compile in your disk controller? 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