From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 21 00:34:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA05587 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 00:34:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA05582 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 00:33:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id KAA13343; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:33:09 +0300 (IDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma013341; Thu Aug 21 10:33:04 1997 Message-ID: <33FBEF07.266D@barcode.co.il> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:32:23 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Keeler CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PANIC: Cannot mount root References: <199708202253.PAA14350@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mark Keeler wrote: > > Arrrrghhhh, please help if you can... > > I've gon through the installation several times, trying different installs > such as minmal, user, and developer...everything goes well until it reboots > then at the end i get > > PANIC: Cannot mount root > > and it reboots. > > Any thoughts? Have you installed FreeBSD onto an EIDE disk that's connected as the master to the secondary controller? If so, give 1:wd(2,a)/kernel at the Boot: prompt. If it's installed on a SCSI disk in a system that also has an EIDE disk, give 1:sd(0,a)/kernel at the boot prompt. Otherwise, please supply more details about your setup, and also search the archives on http://www.freebsd.org, as this has been addressed many times in the past. > > Mark R. Keeler > markk@trios.ca Nadav