From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 17 7:46:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp5.jps.net (smtp5.jps.net [209.63.224.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED78714E21 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 07:46:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hpollard@jps.net) Received: from jps.net (208-235-93-77.jfk.jps.net [208.235.93.77]) by smtp5.jps.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id HAA25453; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 07:46:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3809E159.23801687@jps.net> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 10:46:49 -0400 From: Herbert M Pollard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Dodsworth Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot mount root Panic References: <000301bf18a1$a7900ca0$b6a50ccb@marcdods> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a similar problem I have a ibm 13.5 gig ultra ata 66 drive with 3 primary partitions. The first is a 6 gig with win98. The second is a 1 gig with BeOS 4.5.2. The third is a 5+ gig with 3.3. I use Power Quest boot magic. The install appeared to go find; but after a reboot and selecting the freebsd partition it reads the hd then tries to read the floppy and then I get "read error" as a message. I am not sure if I need to make a boot floppy. During install at the partition editor I got a message stating that I was outside 1024 limit. Did you get any similar message? I didn't think scsi had that limitation. Herb Pollard Marc Dodsworth wrote: > > Hi > > I've just tried to install 3.2 from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM. The > installation has gone fine but when I try to boot the system I get a panic > that it can't mount root. > > Is this symptomatic of not having the root parition below the 1024th > cylinder? > > The hard disk is a Seagate 9.1GB Ultra2Wide. The Parition edit says the > drive has 1100 odd cylinders. My FreeBSD patition is the 3rd partition on > the drive with the first 2 partitions taking up 4032Mb. > > Thankx > > Marc > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message