From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 8 05:23:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA18505 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 05:23:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gateway.blueberry.co.uk (gateway.blueberry.co.uk [195.153.48.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA18476 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 05:23:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keith@blueberry.co.uk) Received: from intranet.blueberry.co.uk (intranet.internal.blueberry.co.uk [10.0.0.2]) by gateway.blueberry.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11730; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:23:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from keith@blueberry.co.uk) Received: (from keith@localhost) by intranet.blueberry.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02265; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:26:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from keith) Message-ID: <19980708132616.12565@blueberry.co.uk> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:26:16 +0100 From: Keith Jones To: Charlie Root Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cant mount after kernel make References: <199807080524.AAA00208@mutsgo.kf7nn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199807080524.AAA00208@mutsgo.kf7nn.com>; from Charlie Root on Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 12:24:54AM -0500 Organization: Blueberry New Media Ltd. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 12:24:54AM -0500, Charlie Root wrote: > I have 1 scsi drive and 1 ide cdrom i have cvsupped tonight and > made world and made a new kernel upon booting i get the > message cannot mount root press any key to reboot. What controller/device/partition/slice is it trying to mount root from? Immediately before it says 'Panic - cannot mount root' there should be a line which says 'changing root device to sd0s1a' or some such. What does this line read? Does the device it's trying to mount root from exist? > i booted the old kernel by typing in > > 0:sd(0,a)oldkernel > > but i cant boot the new kernel by typing in > > 0:sd(0,a)kernel > > I even tried remaking the kernel with the line > kernel config on sd0 instead if wd0 and same results. > > what could be wrong? If the BIOS boots from the IDE controller first, you will almost certainly need to boot the kernel using 1:sd(0,a) rather than 0:sd(0,a). You will probably want to save this information in the boot.config file. > what files could i send you to help me fix this problem? 1. output from 'dmesg' 2. kernel config file (/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/{MYKERNEL}) 3. FS table (/etc/fstab) Kind regards Keith -- v Keith Jones Systems Manager, Blueberry New Media Ltd. v | Postal Mail: 2/10 Harbour Yard, Chelsea Harbour, LONDON, UK. SW10 0XD | | Telephone: +44 (0)171 351 3313 Fax: +44 (0)171 351 2476 | ^ Email: Keith.Jones@blueberry.co.uk WWW: http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ ^ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message