Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:40:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Philip Smith <pmsmith@hooked.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 3 EIDE Hd's and a 6x-TEAC CD-ROM Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961021183821.4798B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <326BE4B2.37DF@hooked.net>
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On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Philip Smith wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD, to my knowledge, correctly, on my computer. > It can't boot up however because of a cannot mount root problem. I have > gone through many of the messages under this criteria to see if they > could help me, but to no avail so far. I'm wondering if it might be > because I have 3 IDE Hd's instead of the usual 2... Hm. :-/ Most BIOSs can only boot the first two disks they find. I don't know if BootEasy or the FreeBSD boot blocks are smart enough to bridge for the third disk. You might try a more complex boot manager such as OS-BS, or try the fbsdboot.exe program to boot FreeBSD from DOS. > and here's the thing, if i type > wd(2,a)/kernel > it starts the boot sequence up just fine until it gets to that > panic: cannot mount root > error message Once you get the kernel recompiled this should go away. You could move your FreeBSD disk onto the primary controller until you get the kernel rebuilt. (there is a 'kernel' line in the config file that lets you set the location of the kernel) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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