Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:39:11 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: "Christopher J. Booth" <cbooth@onyx.interactive.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting to FreeBSD; Again, but Not the Same Message-ID: <32B66A3F.4AED@barcode.co.il> References: <aedbb60301021004b9d5@[208.192.234.129]>
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Christopher J. Booth wrote: > > I have recently installed a 2nd hard drve, which is dedicated to FreeBSD. > > The old hard drive is Master on IDE drive 1; the cdrom is slave on the 1st > IDE drive. The new hard drive is jumpered as "single" on the 2nd IDE drive. > I can now install from the CD-ROM, and in fact have. I am using LILO to > boot to Linux and DOS on hard drive 1, and it it is succesful. > > What I can not do is boot to FreeBSD. > > Using LILO as my boot manager, I key in "bsd" at boot time, and the FreeBSD > boot process begins. Then after a few minutes I receive this message: > > panic: cannot mount root > > and then it automatically reboots. > > Root is the first partition after the MBR. How can I take the next step and > get FreeBSD to completely boot? > > Thank you, all. > > Chris Booth > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Christopher J. Booth This speech of yours hath moved me, > cbooth@mordor.com And shall perchance do good: but speak you on; > You look as you had something more to say. > --Edmund, _King Lear_ This is somewhat of a FAQ. What you need to do is: 1. Give 1:wd(2,a) at the Boot: prompt. This will let you boot FreeBSD. 2. In the kernel config file, modify the config line to read config kernel root on wd2 3. Rebuild and install the kernel. Nadav
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