From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 9 14:11:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA18225 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 14:11:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sand.sentex.ca (sand.sentex.ca [206.222.77.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA18215 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 14:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gravel (gravel.sentex.ca [205.211.165.210]) by sand.sentex.ca (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id RAA00183; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 17:16:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970409165805.00bca8d0@sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@sentex.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 16:58:05 -0400 To: Doug White From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: 2.2.1 Install problem (trying to boot sd1 instead of sd0?!?) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.1.32.19970409100347.00a90760@sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:11 AM 4/09/97 -0700, Doug White wrote: >On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >> Basically, I installed 2.2.1 on a 486-DX100 on sd0, but when I boot I get >> the message "kernel panic... can not mount root on sd1"... Why would it >> look to sd1 for the root partition instead of sd0 ? > >You will get this if the IDE controller is enabled. Try disabling it. > >Also try rebuilding your kernel and modifying the 'kernel' line in the >config to point to sd0. > >You can get started by typing > >sd(0,a)/kernel Super, thanks for the tips... In the end, I got it to work by disabling the IDE drive in the BIOS. Then I was able to boot up with out too many problems.... ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) * To do is to be -- Nietzsche Sentex Communications Corp, * To be is to do -- Sartre Cambridge, Ontario * Do be do be do -- Sinatra (http://www.sentex.net/~mdtancsa) *