Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 23:13:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Anthony Hill <ahill@connect.com.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can boot 2.2.1-R Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970413231253.7719B-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970414085506.22207A-100000@indi.off.connect.com.au>
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On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Anthony Hill wrote: > I tryed a ftp install of 2.2.1-R this weekend, but could not get it to bood. > It seems to boot all the way through with no horrible problems, but then > fails to mount root. > > I think it may be a harddisk detection/geometry problem. > > The motherboard is a triton3 with 2 built in IDE controllers, > The harddisks are 2 425.3 MB Western Digital caviars. (model wdac2420-00F) > > I have Win95 on the first disk and am booting FreeBSD off the second using > osbs. > > Some of the disk related boot messages I get are:- > > wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 IRQ 14 on ISA > wdc0 unit 0 (wd0): <wdc ac2420f> > wd0 405 MB (830760 sectors), 989 clys, 15 heads, 56 st, 512 b/s > wd1 size unknown unsing fake values > wd1 0MB (17 secors), 1 cyls, 1 heads, 17 st, 512 b/s > . > . > . > wd1c hard error reading fsbn 829810 > . > . > . > wd1 cannot find bad sector table (bad sector table i/o error) > wd1s1 cannot find bad sector table (bad sector table i/o error) > panic cannot mount root Your master/slave jumpers are wrong, cable is bad or disconnected, or second disk is hosed. Check your connectors and try again. 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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