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Date:      Wed, 7 Apr 1999 22:54:43 +0930 (CST)
From:      Gregory Lewis <glewis@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        font@couscous.fortdearborn.com (Font)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Panic on installation boot (Adaptec 7895 + 3.1-RELEASE)
Message-ID:  <9904071324.AA05504@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990407012800.2682A-100000@couscous.fortdearborn.com> from Font at "Apr 7, 99 01:31:29 am"

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> What GENERIC kernel says while it's booting for the first time, and every
> subsequent attempt:
> 
> ...
> ahc0: <Adaptec aic7895 Ultra SCSI adapter> rev 0x03 int a irq 9 on
> pci0.9.0
> ahc0: aic7895 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
> ahc1: <Adaptec aic7895 Ultra SCSI adapter> rev 0x03 int a irq 9 on
> pci0.9.1
> ahc1: aic7895 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
> ...
> Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> changing root device to da1s1a
> changing root device to da1a
> da0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <MICROP 4221-09   1128RQ 28RQ> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da0: 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da0: 1955MB (4004219 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 249C)
> Error 6: panic: cannot mount root(2)

I had a similar problem a couple of days ago.  You need to do a

set root_disk_unit=0

in the boot loader.  This can be done automatically if you create a
/boot/loader.rc with that line in it.

-- 
Greg Lewis 				glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au
Computing Officer			+61 8 8303 3237
Teletraffic Research Centre


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