Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:23:10 -0500 From: rknebel@csrlink.net To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install problems Message-ID: <19980302182310.25510@cabbage.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980302130841.19148O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 01:08:54PM -0800 References: <19980228102103.01460@mail.csrlink.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980302130841.19148O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 01:08:54PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > 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). Thanks for your reply. Before I got your message I solved my problem by changing the cdrom to slave and the hard drive to master. > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > -- Rick Knebel rknebel@csrlink.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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