From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 18:21:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA26194 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 18:21:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA26185 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 18:21:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.7.5/8.7.5) id TAA07674; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 19:21:26 -0600 (MDT) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199608220121.TAA07674@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [2.1.5-R] What causes... To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 19:21:24 -0600 (MDT) Cc: tmonroe@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU In-Reply-To: <199608201745.KAA20011@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Aug 20, 96 10:45:57 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Anthony Monroe complained: > I was happily installing 2.1.5-RELEASE last night from CD to my new > SCSI disk. After all the copying was done, and I rebooted the system, > I could convince it to load the kernel, but I was greeted by this > discouraging message: > > panic: cannot mount root Do you also have IDE drives on this system? If you have one, you can boot from the SCSI disk by typing hd(1,a)/kernel at the boot prompt. If you have two IDE drives, you probably can't boot from a SCSI disk (unless your BIOS is far less stupid than mine). You might try hd(2,a)/kernel, etc. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com