Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 15:04:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: Paul Goodyer <paul.goodyer@digitalmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD, Completely stuck, please help! Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980614145016.3389B-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <000401bd977c$de0a5580$8930e4d4@barney>
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I had a similar problem when I added a new hard drive to my system. When the boot: prompt comes up, try typing in: 1:wd(2,a) That tells FreeBSD to boot from the primary IDE drive on the secondary IDE controller. That should be your drive. Now, one thing that got me, was when I installed my new drive, my BIOS got screwed up, and still thought the old drive was BIOS drive 0, even when it was 1. If this fails, try rgoing into BIOS setup, record options you know you'll need, then reset the BIOS to factory default. Then try booting into FreeBSD normally. Note that the 1 in the command above refers to the IDE controller (primary is 0, secondary is 1), and the wd refers to IDE, and the 2 refers to which disk on the controller (2 or 3), and the a refers to the partition. Joe Clarke On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Paul Goodyer wrote: > Help! > > I have recently purchased FreeBSD and the "Complete FreeBSD" book and have > spent the whole weekend trying to install it. I have a Pentium 2 P233 (32MB) > with a number of harddisks installed. I have been trying to install BSD on > the 3rd harddisk which is 1GB (set as the primary disk on the second IDE > port). > > I have been booting from floppy and then installing from the CDROM. > > I keep having the same error "Panic: Cannot Mount Root"). Everything seems > to be fine on install, the system seems to boot OK, but as soon as it tries > to mount the filesystem the same thing happens. > > The disk geometry is 2105/16/63 (for Cylinders/Heads/Sectors respectively). > I have read about the problems with EIDE disks over 504MB and have tried a > number of things. I started by using the whole disk for BSD on a single > slice. I then tried using two slices (making the first the bootable). The > first slice was 50MB and labelled root, whilst the remainder of the disk was > divided between SWAP, /usr and /var. > > I have noticed that when I restart using the boot floppy and go into the > installation again and look at the label editor, although I does know about > the slices, the mount field always says *, (not /, /usr or /var). > > I have real high hopes of BSD, and want to get it running ASAP, but at the > moment I am completely stuck. > > > Please can someone help, thanks > > Paul > > > > Dr Paul D.Goodyer > B.Eng(Hons), AMIEE, MInstP, PhD, CPhys > -------------------------------------- > EMail: paul.goodyer@digitalmail.com > Tel: ++44 1767 683968 > -------------------------------------- > > > > 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
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