From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 28 22:24:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA08423 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:24:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA08394 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:23:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA22430; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:23:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:23:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Adelberger=2C_J=F6rg?= cc: "'FreeBSD Support'" Subject: Re: Problem to run FreeBSD after installation In-Reply-To: <9711241042.AA20214@firewall.istech.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id WAA08395 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, [iso-8859-1] Adelberger, Jörg wrote: > receive the message "Panic! Can't mount root" and the system is > restarted ... Move your disk then do the following: If you get the message: panic: Cannot mount root At the end of the probe sequence you should either: 1. Have the line: config kernel root on wd2 in your kernel config, OR: 2. Rename the second disk to wd1 in the kernel config (comment out the original wd1 line and change the wd2 line to read wd1, leaving all other parameters unchanged). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major