From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 6 11: 8:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alanmcc.net.us (tc4-s37.wizard.net [209.8.153.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5533814F40 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:08:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alan17@wizard.net) Received: (qmail 465 invoked by uid 500); 6 Jul 1999 18:09:38 -0000 Message-ID: <19990706180938.464.qmail@alanmcc.net.us> From: alan17@wizard.net Subject: Re: How to boot FreeBSD To: Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk (Bond Jeffery) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 14:09:38 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Bond, Jeffery" at Jul 6, 99 09:37:11 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-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Bond, Jeffery: > > Hi Alan, > > You say FreeBSD is on your second hard drive. Is this a slave on the primary > interface, or a master on the secondary? > > If it's a secondary master, I guess the /etc/lilo.conf entry would point to > /dev/hdc1 (in linux speak). Yes indeed. It is a secondary master, and I believe my LILO entry works fine. But all problems are not over. :-( When I boot my machine and enter "bsd" at the LILO prompt, BSD certainly seems to be booting. The screen messages start with "Loading bsd . . . " and continue on, using a lot of terminology that a 'umble Linuxian like meself cannot fathom. But at the end of the process, here are the lines that appear on the screen: changing root device to wd1s1a changing root device to wd1a error 6: panic: cannot mount root (2) syncing disks . . . done and then I am offered the chance to reboot. I actually went through the install process twice, and thought I did the second time quite well. I am willing to try again, but I'm hoping that the Masters on this list can give me input on what to avoid, or what to try for. I installed with the "novice" method, and I put in a lot of ports . .. but I don't believe that any of that is causing the kernel panic reflected in the messages above. All help much appreciated, TIA! Alan -- Alan McConnell I claim not to have controlled events, but confess Pixel Analysis plainly that events have controlled me. (A. Lincoln) alan17@wizard.net Hold the fort! I am coming! (W.T. Sherman) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message