Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 19:57:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Michael P. Deslippe" <tensbum@ix.netcom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Next Problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961011195555.232M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0b35.32.19961011133957.00b5cd78@ix.netcom.com>
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On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Michael P. Deslippe wrote: > Well, in the continuing saga of my first Unix/FreeBSD setup, I found the > problem with > invalid argument (22) > > It turns out that to load from a DOS partition, it must be a PRIMARY DOS > partition. Extended DOS Partitions won't mount. That is correct. > Now I have everything loaded and got the congratulations (spelled > congradulations on the screen) window. I answered, said and did what I > needed to do to get through the post-install prompts, not really adding > anything. I added a boot manager, because the default one wouldn't come > up. Running bootinst from the tools directory gave me a working ability to > boot off the second drive. > > Now it loads all the way to the end, then says > > panic: can't mount root > rebooting in 15 seconds > > and I get an endless loop of reboots. You need to explicitly give the disk to boot at the Boot: prompt. Apparently FreeBSD has a problem detecting which disk it's booting from and thus the kernel bombs out. You should be able to boot properly by typing wd(1,a)/kernel (replacing 1 with the proper disk number) at the Boot: prompt. Once it gets up, you'll need to rebuild your kernel, changing the 'config' line in the kernel config to reflect the disk the kernel is on. Have you taken a look at the FAQ recently? I believe the two things you're run into are cataloged there. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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