From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 14 18:29:06 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA22818 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Feb 1995 18:29:06 -0800 Received: from cybernetics.net (jeffh@server0.cybernetics.net [198.80.48.52]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA22812 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 1995 18:29:05 -0800 Received: by cybernetics.net (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA21507; Tue, 14 Feb 95 21:28:54 EST Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 21:28:52 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Hoffman To: FreeBSD-Questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: panic: cannot mount root Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to install FreeBSD on the following computer: Maximus Magna Artist Pro Multimedia 90mhz Pentium 32mb RAM 1gig Fujitsu SCSI-3 HDD NCR 53c825 Fast/Wide SCSI Controller Plextor 4PLEX Quad-spin CD-ROM #9 Imagine-128 Video Board (use Xaccel for this, since XF86 won't work) 3.5" QIC-80 Tape (IOMEGA Tape250) The strange thing is, I had FreeBSD running on this machine before. Then, I reformatted my drive to add Windows NT, and when I go back to install FreeBSD I cannot get past this problem as I did before. This is the information from bootup that I could write down: changing root device to fd0c fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (ST0 40 ST1 4 ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 17) panic: cannot mount root rebooting in 15 seconds, blah blah When I reboot, my BIOS reports that my floppy drive(s) fail. Before, after rebooting a few times it finally went past this point and I installed FreeBSD, never to bother with it again. I am trying to install 2.0R from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM. This time, however, after I reboot, it scans my floppy drive, and then boots NT as if there is no disk in the drive. I have to power my computer off and back on, or boot NT and re-start to get it to recognize the floppy again. The only thing that has changed since my last installation is the addition of the IOMEGA Tape250 QIC-80 drive. If anyone has any suggestions or help, I'd sincerely appreciate it. -jeff