Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:08:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: rknebel@csrlink.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980302130841.19148O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980228102103.01460@mail.csrlink.net>
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On Sat, 28 Feb 1998 rknebel@csrlink.net wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to install freebsd on a third harddrive 1.6g which is jumpered > as secondary slave behing a cdrom which is secondary master. > I can partition the hard drve fine and install freebsd. > The kernal boots but it stops with the message changing root device to > wd2a cannot mount root. It then will just reboot. If you get the message: panic: Cannot mount root At the end of the probe sequence you should either: 1. Have the line: config kernel root on wd2 in your kernel config, OR: 2. Rename the second disk to wd1 in the kernel config (comment out the original wd1 line and change the wd2 line to read wd1, leaving all other parameters unchanged). 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
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