Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 12:05:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Chad William Monteith <cwm@Marlar.phys.du.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Panics Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970803120245.4730E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970802213750.15783A-100000@Marlar.phys.du.edu>
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On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Chad William Monteith wrote: > Greetings. I dont think this went through last time, so I am resending > (Domos generally reject submissions from non-subbed address) > Apologies if you get this twice. The freebsd mailing lists don't have this limitation, BTW. > I successfully installed FreeBSD on one of my HD's, but when it > boots it panics becuase it cannot find the root partition. Here is my > setup: > on IDE Port 0: Master IDE Drive (WD), Slave IDE CDROM > on IDE Port 1: IDE Drive (WD) with FreeBSD on it > The system reports the BSD Drive as wd2 (Which it is). I have tried > placing these parameters at boot time: wd(2,a)kernel > I know it can reasd the drive, as the boot can read the root partition, > and it runs all the setup config programs, it just does not boot the root > partition. > Any and all assistance will be greatly appreciated. In this situation the kernel can get confused as to where the root location is. You'll need to temporarily move your FreeBSD disk onto your primary IDE channel (port 0) so you can start it and build a new kernel. Then follow these instructions. 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). Hope this helps. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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