Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 12:42:16 +0100 From: Dominique Jacquel <d.jacquel@ed.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3.2 kernel panic: unable to mount root! Message-ID: <37527598.57984128@ed.ac.uk>
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hi, I am a total freeBSD newbie but have a fair background with linux! I am encountering problems trying to install freeBSD 3.2 on my system. The install seems to go all right but on reboot, it all goes wrong when the kernel tries to mount /. I get an error 22 "enable to mount root", followed by a panic! I tried to define rootdev="disk1s3a" with no effect :-( System: -> biPII Iwill DBS100 motherboard with adaptec AIC7895 dual channel SCSI controller. -> disk0 on narrow channel A with a DOS partition containing the dist. -> disk1 on wide channel B were I wish to install freeBSD. During intall I create a slice for freeBSD on disk1. I then make an automatic partition of this slice. As a result I get / on da1s3a. The rest of the install goes fine (as far as I can tell). I choose not to install the boot loader since I want to dual boot with NT using the C:\boot.ini + bootsect.bsd trick that I already use with my linux partition. At reboot, the kernel recognises everything fine .. it just can't mount /!! I looked into /disk1s3a/boot and found an empty loader.conf, which sounds strange to me! Are there variable I could define at the prompt to try to kickstart the system? thanks in advance for your help. dom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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