From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 18:40:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA01961 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA01952 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:40:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA04811; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:40:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Philip Smith cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 3 EIDE Hd's and a 6x-TEAC CD-ROM In-Reply-To: <326BE4B2.37DF@hooked.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Philip Smith wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD, to my knowledge, correctly, on my computer. > It can't boot up however because of a cannot mount root problem. I have > gone through many of the messages under this criteria to see if they > could help me, but to no avail so far. I'm wondering if it might be > because I have 3 IDE Hd's instead of the usual 2... Hm. :-/ Most BIOSs can only boot the first two disks they find. I don't know if BootEasy or the FreeBSD boot blocks are smart enough to bridge for the third disk. You might try a more complex boot manager such as OS-BS, or try the fbsdboot.exe program to boot FreeBSD from DOS. > and here's the thing, if i type > wd(2,a)/kernel > it starts the boot sequence up just fine until it gets to that > panic: cannot mount root > error message Once you get the kernel recompiled this should go away. You could move your FreeBSD disk onto the primary controller until you get the kernel rebuilt. (there is a 'kernel' line in the config file that lets you set the location of the kernel) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major