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Date:      Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:23:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Robert C. Hill" <rchill@wf.quik.com>
Cc:        FBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: SCSI install
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807201622420.16885-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000c01bdb202$6b6e2060$1439a8c0@barsoom.rchill.net>

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On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Robert C. Hill wrote:

> Hello ppl,
> 
> At the beginning of this week my 4 year old 340m IDE hard drive that I had
> FreeBSD on gave up the ghost.  I was given an old file server and I
> cannibalized it's 630m SCSI hard drive and Adaptec AHA-1542B host adapter.
> This is the first SCSI stuff that I have ever installed on a system.  The
> system that I put it into has a 1.6g IDE drive (primary master) with Win95.
> The install went well and I used Win95 to format and check out the SCSI
> drive.  The install of FreeBSD `dangerously dedicated' to the SCSI drive
> seemed to go well.  But, after boot initializes everything I keep getting
> this error message on the console;
> 
> panic! Cannot mount root!

Dual IDE/SCSI systems confuse the boot blocks sometimes.

Try typing

1:sd(0,a)/kernel

at the Boot: prompt. 

If that isn't working for you, post the boot messages, particularly the
SCSI controller and disk probes.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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