Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 00:01:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Dima Dorfman <dima@zwb.net> To: cosmo@netscad.net (cosmo) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install Failed FreeBSD4.4 (panic: cannot mount root) Message-ID: <199805180401.AAA28578@nwalme.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <199805180305.WAA28438@soccer.netscad.net> from cosmo at "May 17, 98 10:08:27 pm"
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FreeBSD 4.4? I know BSDi 4.4, but FreeBSD 2.2.6 or, maybe 3.0. At the boot prompt: 1:wd(0,a)kernel search the archives for details > Hi, I recently purchased the book "The Complete FreeBSD". I tried to > install the UNIX system but it failed to boot. The last message it says is > :" Panic: cannot mount root". Here is the detailed process I went through: > > The machine I have is a Cyrix 150 MHz with 32 Meg of RAM. I have two hard > drives in this machine: the primary master is a 2 gig IDE and is used > entirely by Windows 95 OEM Release 2. The primary slave is a 1.2 gig IDE > (1227 Meg) drive which I intend for FreeBSD. The motherboard is capable of > detecting hard drives and here is what it saids: > > Hard Disks Type Size CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE > Primary Master 2002 970 64 0 3881 63 LBA > Primary Slave 1339 2595 16 65535 594 63 LBA > > I booted from CD-ROM and got into the FDISK screen. The hard drive is > empty, so I pressed "A" to use the entire disk. FreeBSD created 30 Meg for > "/", 73 Meg for "swap", 32 Meg for "/var" and the rest for "/usr". Then I > quit and used the custom installation without the boot manager (the middle > choice of the boot manager selection screen). Everything then went on fine > except that I cannot find the "Quit" choice on the "Machine Configuration" > screen. So I chose "Exit" from the menu, "Exit" again to get back to the > original screen and chose "Exit Install". Then the machine reboots and > prints the boot messages and went on printing the information of hard > drives, card information, etc, until it says "panic: cannot mount root". > Here are the last few lines of the screen: > > ... > lnc0 not probed due to I/O address conflict with ed0 at 0x280 > ze0 not found at 0x300 > zp0 not found at 0x300 > npx0 flags 0x1 on motherboard > npx0: INT 16 interface > panic: cannot mount root > > syncing disks... done > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort > --> Press a key on the console to reboot <-- > > After the machine rebooted, I started with the installation CD again, and > went into the "DISKLABEL" and found that except the swap partition, all the > text in the "Mount" column saids <none> and the Newfs saids "*". I think > that is the problem since "/" is not mounted. So I use M to mount them and > installed again. But the same thing happened like last reboot. Seems that > the software just cannot mount the partitions correctly. I wonder if there > is something I did wrong or something wrong with my hardware configuration. > Then I used Linux boot and root disk to boot and type "FDISK /dev/hdb" at > the command prompt, and Linux report: > > 64 heads, 63 sectors, 648 cylinders > Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks ID System > /dev/hdb1 * 1 1 649 1307848+ a5 BSD/386 > > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings > Phys=(1023,15,63) logical=(648,47,63) > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary > Phys=(1023,15,63) should be (1023, 63, 63) > > Later on, I deleted the entire installation and use the CMOS hard drive > auto detection and used NORMAL mode on the primary slave drive (looks like > below) and reinstalled FreeBSD and still failed. > > Hard Disks Type Size CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE > Primary Master 2002 970 64 0 3881 63 LBA > Primary Slave 1339 2595 16 65535 594 63 NORMAL > > Please contact me at xg1@hotmail.com. Thank you very much for your time. > > Cosmo > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Dima Dorfman (dima@zwb.net) "640k ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981 Micro$oft Sucks! FreeBSD Rules! http://www.freebsd.org/ Finger dima@zwb.net for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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