Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:15:41 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing root device... Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980306110855.15094A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <v04003a03b1253bd880f0@[208.140.182.45]>
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On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Cory Kempf wrote: > Hi All, > I am having a bit of trouble getting FreeBSD to run on my system... > > I have a DK440LX motherboard, and a SCSI disk. Using the disk images > located in <ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/incoming/cam-boot.tgz>, I was able to > successfully install. If I do a fixit, and mount /dev/da0a or /dev/da0s1 > on /mnt1. > > Unfortunately, when I try to boot without the floppies, I get the following > lines somewhere near where it locates my disk (sometimes it has stuff about > my disk in the middle, sometimes before. seems to depend on the boot > command): > > Considering FFS root f/s. > changing root devide to wd0a > error 6: panic: cannot mount root (2) My guess is you also have an ATAPI CD-ROM as master on first channel of wdc0, or some other (bootable) device - this combination (to a reason unknown to me - is it MB fault or someone elses...) results in bootloader wrongly assuming it's being booted off the wd0. You can defeat it by specifying -a flag, and then responsing with 'da0' to the prompt asking which device to mount on root. This is only a workaround, not a solution - I'll have to investigate it more before giving you any other advice... Andrzej Bialecki ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@warman.org.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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