Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 13:48:31 +0800 From: "Stephen Cooper" <stephenc@ios.alphawest.com.au> To: "Jeorge Hasselbrink" <jeorgeh@bewellnet.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: H e l l l l l l l l p p p p p Message-ID: <006301bd8dea$134eb1b0$297c0ecb@stephenc.alphawest.com.au>
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This is a common problem. I will paste a reply that I keep stored on my hard disk: ===================================================================== On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Christoph Sold wrote: > >> FreeBSD BOOT @ 0x10000: 640/31744 k of memory, internal console > Boot default: 1:wd(1,a)kernel > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THIS IS WRONG! > There is no primary slave IDE disk installed. The kernel resides on > "1:wd(2,a)/kernel", the secondary master. Modify /boot.config on that disk to have `1:wd(2,a)/kernel' in it. You have your disks split across the controllers and this confuses the heck out of the boot blocks. Move the disk to the primary controller. If you don't want to do that, you're going to get the obligatory ``can't mount root''. If you really really want to have the disks split, then follow these instructions: 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -----Original Message----- From: Jeorge Hasselbrink <jeorgeh@bewellnet.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 1:25 PM Subject: H e l l l l l l l l p p p p p >Hi!! Im a newbie so please dont be too harsh > >Ive installed free BSD on my Windows 95 on a second hard drive totaly >dedicated to the BSD file system. The instilation compleats and then >reboots. The boot manager works just fine and starts to run the kernal. >everything goes along fine and then it says > > >panic cannot mount root > >I hope its something simple, but ive looked through the book on the cd and >can't find anything (if it were a snake it would probably bite me) any help >would be greatly appriciated. Thanks in advance > >jeorgeh@bigfoot.com or >jeorgeh@bewellnet.com > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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