Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 15:53:30 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, johnson@charming.nrtc.northrop.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5-RELEASE installation question Message-ID: <322DDE3A.216C@ime.net> References: <199609041228.HAA02275@horton.iaces.com>
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Paul T. Root wrote: > > In a previous message, Doug White said: > > > > On Tue, 3 Sep 1996 johnson@charming.nrtc.northrop.com wrote: > > > > > I have been trying to install Free BSD 2.1.5-RELEASE, and have > > > encountered the problem described below. > > > > > > I did a minimal install from a DOS partition. The install claimed to > > > have completed successfully. > > > > > > Then, when I boot the machine, I get a rather lengthy list of devices, > > > IRQ's, etc., and finally the following message appears: > > > > > > panic: cannot mount root > > > > Hm. My guesses are as follows: > > > > 1) The kernel can't figure out just where the root directory is. This > > may be caused by the enhancer, as it's data area does not conincide with > > the BIOSs and thus FreeBSD can't identify any disks. > > > > 2) The wdc0 probe isn't finding any disks, period. Watch the boot > > messages for wd* devices and see if your disk & controller is found and > > identified. > > I have one other guess. He didn't say how he set up the disk slices. I'm > going to guess that he split it in half and FreeBSD starts somewhere up > in the 800-900 Meg range. > > For EIDE drives, the root partition *MUST* be completely contained within > the first 504Meg of the drive, due to the PC architectures BIOS limitations. > That applies to all IDE bootable devices, Not just EIDE. -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848
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