Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 00:13:46 +0000 () From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: Kent Fletcher <kent_fletcher@pobox.tbe.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, thankhuu@cco.caltech.edu Subject: Re: freebsd question Message-ID: <199608060013.AAA06110@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <n1372886558.77583@pobox.tbe.com> from "Kent Fletcher" at Aug 5, 96 08:54:07 am
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Hope you don't mind, but I've Cc'd this to the list as I'm not sure what else to suggest that I haven't suggested before, and that didn't seem to solve the problem :-( > I came across some interchange between you guys (Thanh Khuu & James Raynard) > in a news group, "muc.lists.freebsd.questions" regarding a problem of not > being able to mount root. By the way, I can read newsgroups but I can't post > so I have to send an e-mail. Anyway, I have a similar configuration as Thanh > Khuu, i.e., > > primary ide (master): 1.6G (Win 95) > primary ide (slave): 8x CDROM (Ocean Tecknologies) > seconary (master): 1.6G (Freebsd 2.1) > secondary(slave): 4x CDROM (Mitsumi) > > Thanh Khuu wrote that the system paniced, "Cannot mount root". He tried > booting from floppy and at Boot: prompt entered "wd(2,a)", his second drive, Shouldn't that be wd(1,a)? > which was one of your suggestions, (James R.), but did not work according to > Thanh Khuu. I am having the same problem. I originally had freebsd and win95 > on one hard disk, and that seemed to work fine. The catch is I had to make my > win95 partition only 300 meg. I needed more space so I got the extra 1.6 G > drive exclusively for freebsd. Anyway, I believe the system is originally > searching wd(2,a), it freaks out, then says "switching to wd1a" (I think) then > "panic: cannot mount root". Were you guy's ever able to resolve this problem. > It would be greatly appreciated if I could get some advice.
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