From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 3 12:54:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01556 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:54:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01549 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:54:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA13507; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:53:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:53:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Patrick R. Montgomery" <103007.526@compuserve.com> cc: All Subject: Re: System Boot Problems In-Reply-To: <199802011259_MC2-3173-82C6@compuserve.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Patrick R. Montgomery wrote: > I am having some serious problems getting my system to boot up in FreeBSD > version 2.2.1 or 2.2.5. I have tried installing both versions and I get > the same result. After going through almost the entire boot process, I get > a panic:cannot mount root error. Could somebody please shed some light on > how to get around this issue or how to resolve the problem. I'll save you the search :-) : If you get the message: panic: Cannot mount root At the end of the probe sequence you should either: 1. Have the line: config kernel root on wd2 in your kernel config, OR: 2. Rename the second disk to wd1 in the kernel config (comment out the original wd1 line and change the wd2 line to read wd1, leaving all other parameters unchanged). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major