Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 23:50:05 -0700 From: JBradley@ucsd.edu To: <FREEBSD-QUESTIONS@FreeBSD.org> Subject: panic: cannot mount root Message-ID: <199710210651.XAA10415@sdcc14.ucsd.edu>
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To whomever wants to help: After a minimal install of BSD, it fails to boot correctly. Here is the setup. 2 disk system 1st disk is pure DOS and booteasy 2nd has 32M DOS partition at front and FreeBSD slice on remainder. Disk 1 shows up as wd0 Disk 2 shows up as wd2 (that's wd2, NOT wd1). 48 M ram. (I saw the similar problem in errata that involver 48M machines and failure to mount fd0 as root during install. I tried the solution given: I went into config and set "iosize npx0 32768" but it didn't work.) When the kernel loads, all devices are probed correctly. When system attempts "changing root device to wd1a," the system panics with "panic: cannot mount root" and restarts. The odd thing is that, during setup, the root "/" partition of the FreeBSD slice showed wd2s2a, and the drives were wd0 and wd2. It seems like the kernel is looking to wd1 for the root. How can I change this to get it to boot properly? Thanks, Justin Bradley
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