Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:01:38 -0700 From: Philip Smith <pmsmith@hooked.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3 EIDE Hd's and a 6x-TEAC CD-ROM Message-ID: <326BE4B2.37DF@hooked.net>
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I have installed FreeBSD, to my knowledge, correctly, on my computer. It can't boot up however because of a cannot mount root problem. I have gone through many of the messages under this criteria to see if they could help me, but to no avail so far. I'm wondering if it might be because I have 3 IDE Hd's instead of the usual 2... My hd's load up in this order HardDrive 0 WDC (Serial number) HardDrive 1 WDC (serial number) CD-ROM 1 (some nonsense) HardDrive 2 WDC (serial number) Would this strange array of hd's in an eide atmosphere confuse bsd? or am I, more likely, just being a fool and am not typing the correct string at the boot prompt? i have tried wd(3,a)/kernel wd(3,a)kernel 3:wd(3,a)/kernel 3:wd(3,a)kernel and here's the thing, if i type wd(2,a)/kernel it starts the boot sequence up just fine until it gets to that panic: cannot mount root error message Please help! I don't want to be an Win95/NT/Dos user only! I'd love to learn how to function under a unix type enviroment... besides i'm getting sick of windows Thanks for any help anyone can give me in advance! --Phil
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