Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 10:01:37 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il> To: ben@stuyts.nl Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install problem on second drive: panic can't mount / Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.91-heb-2.04.961218095852.21911A-100000@cs.technion.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <9612172100.AA22915@daneel.stuyts.nl>
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First, such matters belong in questions, not in stable (I've changed the CC line accordingly). On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Ben Stuyts wrote: > I am trying to install 2.1.5-Release on a system with three drives: > > - The first one is an IDE drive with Win95 (master on first IDE controller) > - The second one is a SCSI drive with FreeBSD (scsi id 1) > - The third one is a SCSI drive with WinNT (scsi id 2) > > The motherboard is a dual-pentium Giga-Byte DX586 with on-board 7880 scsi > controller. > > I managed to get a bootmanager to boot FreeBSD, and it boots the kernel > allright. After that, it panics and reboots because it cannot mount the / > filesystem. If I disable the IDE drive in the bios, booting FreeBSD works > just fine. > > I am not able to change the booting order in the bios so that the SCSI drives > would be probed before the IDE drives. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Ben > It's not the probe order that matters. It's where the kernel is looking for the rot filesystem. Try one of the following: 1. At the Boot: prompt, give: 1:sd(0,a) (if the SCSI drive you boot from is called sd0). You may also have to use the -r flag. 2. In your kernel config file, make sure that the config line reads: config kernel root on sd0 (again, assuming sd0 is the SCSI drive with FreeBSD on it). I hope one of these will work for you... Nadav
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