From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 25 18:24:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08888 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 18:24:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (ken@panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA08853 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 18:23:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id TAA18375; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 19:23:34 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199806260123.TAA18375@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: I'm burning... In-Reply-To: from Ian Kallen at "Jun 25, 98 02:43:54 pm" To: ian@gamespot.com (Ian Kallen) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 19:23:33 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ian Kallen wrote... > > I'm kind of burning in hell right now. I'm installing CURRENT onto a > system with a 3940 controller that has the AIC-7895 chip. OK fine. I > found the boot floppy that has the CAM stuff in it at > http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/cam-boot/ > and did my install thing, copied the CAM aware kernel and chflag'd schg. > Now the system comes up and sees the 3940 busses as ahc0 and ahc1, as I > expected but it can't mount root. It's sees the disks and barfs, > something like this: > da0: 4095Mb (normal looking disk recognition stuff) > error 6: panic: cannot mount root > > If I floppy boot and fsck it, there's no complaints. I can mount it > when I'm floppy booted. What horrible step did I omit when I did this > installation? Can you boot single user? (i.e. -s at the boot prompt) What does your fstab look like? It could be that your fstab specifies a non-sliced root partition (e.g. /dev/sd0a) but you really need a sliced partition (e.g. /dev/sd0s1a) It could also be that the disklabel on the drive says the disk type is ESDI or something instead of SCSI. Check that as well. The 'panic: cannot mount root' thing is generally not a CAM problem, but rather a setup problem of some sort. My guess is that one of those two things will fix it. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message