From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Sep 17 8:47: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.dsp.uiowa.edu (mail.dsp.uiowa.edu [128.255.242.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D1515857 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 08:46:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris-manjoine@uiowa.edu) Received: from dsp45 (dsp62.dsp.uiowa.edu [128.255.242.128]) by mail.dsp.uiowa.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA09132 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 10:46:39 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19990917104522.00a5e1e0@mail.vpr.uiowa.edu> X-Sender: manjoine@mail.vpr.uiowa.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 10:45:38 -0500 To: FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: Chris Manjoine Subject: Instalation Problems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ok I've read the Faq about panic: cannot mount root. But I still have questions: To make a IDE drive bootable does it have to be on the master or can it be slave? I have one disk on the primary that has a old bsd and our backup and another disk that has a cd rom as the master and the IDE drive as slave. I install a bootable 3.2 freebsd to the slave and it installs fine. I reboot the system and it gives me th error 6 message. In following this faq http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/install.html#AEN683 I enter this at a boot prompt 1:wd(2,a)kernel is this right related txt files ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/3.2-RELEASE/TROUBLE.TXT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message