From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 15 10:22:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12247 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 10:22:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [207.108.223.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12239 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 10:22:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with UUCP id KAA23369; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 10:20:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id KAA15759; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 10:18:52 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199803151818.KAA15759@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: Trouble installing FreeBSD In-Reply-To: from Tim Moony at "Mar 15, 98 09:35:26 am" To: timm@uniqsite.com (Tim Moony) Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 10:18:52 -0800 (PST) Cc: k_nightingale@psnw.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Tim Moony: > > > On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Kenneth Nightingale wrote: > > > I am having trouble installing FreeBSD 2.2.5 on my computer. > > I have a Pentium 200 MMX w/ 64meg and two EIDE drives. > > The first drive is 1.6 meg and has Win95 on it. The second drive is 3.5 meg and has nothing on it. My plan is to install FreeBSD on the second drive and use my BIOS to boot to that drive. Installation proceeds well, computer reboots, and the kernal starts then lists the drivers but at the very end the system says "panic: cannot mount root". Problem may be disk geometry. Drive is 7237 cyls 15 heads 63 sectors. BIOS reads the drive as 848 cyls 128 heads 63 sectors. I have tried having a DOS partition on the drive as well as keeping the partitions below 1024 cyls. What am I missing? Any ideas would be appreciated! > > Thanks in advance, > > Ken Nightingale > > k_nightingale@psnw.com > > > > > > Please next time provide as much info as possible. > > To boot from the FBSD drive, you need to tell the kernel to READ every > slices from the second drive (as you indicated). > > With so little info you gave, I can only say so much. But many people had > done this, try to search the mailing lists for some answers. > > It's at http://www.freebsd.org/search.html. I would personally, though, > install it on the first drive. > > Ken, I had similar problems with Debian Linux on my first drive and FreeBSD on my second. You may need to give FBSD the correct boot information at the ``boot:'' prompt. Something like: ``0:sd(1,a)/kernel'' if your second drive is SCSI. `wd' if it is IDE or whatever. This sort of thing is doable given the flexibility of FBSD. But it takes some experimentation. gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message