Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 22:54:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Dominique Jacquel <d.jacquel@ed.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.2 kernel panic: unable to mount root! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905312253130.4498-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <37527598.57984128@ed.ac.uk>
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On Mon, 31 May 1999, Dominique Jacquel wrote: > 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 you sure that the disk is found? Check the boot messages and make sure your SCSI controller is probed correctly. > Are there variable I could define at the prompt to try to kickstart the > system? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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