Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 11:07:52 EDT From: BeroLinux <BeroLinux@aol.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Trouble booting FreeBSD for the first time Message-ID: <8e3ebe7c.353a134a@aol.com>
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Hello,
I've just installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 from an official FreeBSD CD.
Installation worked fine, but I can't boot it.
Every time I try booting into FreeBSD, it claims it cannot mount the root
filesystem, and resets the computer.
I've tried specifying the root partition manually (in several variations, such
as "3:sd(3,a)kernel -rrsd1a", "3:sd(3,a) kernel -rsd1a"), with the same
outcome.
Last output of trying to boot with -v is:
imasks: bio c0000400 tty c0038092 net c0038092
BIOS Geometries:
0: 03097f37 0..777=778 cylinders, 0..127=128 heads, 1..63=63 sectors
1: 03117f3f 0..785=786 cylinders, 0..127=128 heads, 1..63=63 sectors
2: 0106fe3f 0..262=263 cylinders, 0..254=255 heads, 1..63=63 sectors
3: 020efe3f 0..526=527 cylinders, 0..254=255 heads, 1..63=63 sectors
4: 00273f20 0..39=40 cylinders, 0..63=64 heads, 1..63=63 sectors
0 accounted for
Device configuration finished.
considering FFS root f/s.
configure() finished.
panic: cannot mount root
syncing disks: done
Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on console to abort.
There's probably nothing wrong with the filesystem, as I can mount and access
it from Linux without problems ("mount -tufs /dev/sdb5 /mnt").
I'm loading FreeBSD from LILO, as described in the Linux+FreeBSD howto
("other=/dev/sdb5 table=/dev/sdb loader=/boot/chain.b")
My system is an AMD K6, 64 MB RAM, 2 IDE disks + 3 SCSI disk, with FreeBSD
being on the second SCSI disk (sd1).
Any clues? (Please reply to bero@microsoft.sucks.eu.org - I'm not on the list
and I do hate the account I'm using to write this message ;) )
LLaP
bero
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