From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 20:07:51 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA00187 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 20:07:51 -0800 Received: from ix3.ix.netcom.com (ix3.ix.netcom.com [199.182.120.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA00171 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 20:07:40 -0800 From: cjspies@ix.netcom.com Received: from #cjspies by ix3.ix.netcom.com (8.6.12/SMI-4.1/Netcom) id UAA06190; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 20:06:37 -0800 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD boot problems Date: Tue, 28 Nov 95 04:04:29 GMT Message-ID: X-Mailer: Quarterdeck Message Center [1.0] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I am having a problem with the installation of FreeBSD 2.1.0 The program seems to install OK and it gets configured (except Apache and Samba because I don't have the fully qualified names listed in the Dos directory.), but when the system reboots, it loads the kernel and searches for devices, all is ok, but after it is done searching for devices it says: "Panic: could not mount /root" Here is the system config: (very difficult and screwy!) Pentium 120 pipeline cache 16MB EDO ram 1 WDC420mb hard disk as primary master Partition 1(1MB): OS/2 Boot manager (the primary boot partition) Partition 2(100MB): DOS/Windows 3.1 Drive C: Partition 3(150MB): Win 95 Drive C: Partition 4(150MB): OS/2 Warp as Drive E: under all OS's With DOS/Win and Win 95: For these OS's to work, each has to be specified as the Primary partition when it is running and hence, each disk is not visible to the other. ie when DOS is loaded, the Win 95 drive is not accessable, and vice versa. Adaptec 2940 Seagate Hawk 1GB (ST31230N I think is the number) configured as drive D: Partition 1(730MB): Drive D: under all OS's Partition 2(256MB): FreeBSD install drive broken down as follows: "/" drive is 32MB swap drive is 42MB "/var" drive is 32MB "/usr" drive is 150MB in that order (I used the 'A' Command) FreeBSD seems to install just fine, but when the kernel is done loading, the system just gives the error message and says it is rebooting. Any help is appreciated! Justin