Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 13:17:52 +0100 (BST) From: Aled Treharne <taff@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cannot mount / Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971016130446.540B-100000@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk>
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Hi there.
Preamble and situation
I have recently installed FBSD on my home machine following several
succesfull experiences in the University. The machine is an AMD 486DX2-66
with 24Mb RAM, 3Com 3C509 TPO and ESS1868 Audio Drive sounds card - both
on the Plug'n'Pray, ATAPI 20speed CDROM on the EIDE controller on the
sound card, and 2 hard disks - 2.1G Fujitsu (Master) and 1.2G (Slave). I
have windoze 95 on the fujitsu and FBSD has the other to itself, though
it has an "other-os-compatible" partition table. FBSD installed fine,
with no problems. I did not place the FBSD booteasy os loader into the
MBR of the Master drive.
Problem.
I tried booting into freebsd by specifying 1:wd(0,a)/kernel from the boot
floppy. All goes fine until it tries to mount the root partition. There
are no error messages during the bootup process until it reaches the
point where it tries to mount the root partition. Then it just says
Panic: cannot mount root
Automatic reboot in 15 seconds....press any key on the console.......
Other Information.
I ahev had to change the standard IRQ and I/O settings for both the
secondary IDE controller and the 3C509. I changed the IDE controller
because FBSD wouldn't recognise it. I took the IRQ and I/O settings from
Windoze control panel. I then had to change the 3C509 settings because
they clashed with the IDE controller. I took these settings from the
Windoze control panel as well. I am totally confused as to why it cannot
mount the root partition.
Any help would be greatly apperciated as I need a Unix system on my
machine to do my coursework.
Many thanks,
Aled Treharne.
Aled Treharne felix@royal.net
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