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#! rnews 2197 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!stepsun.uni-kl.de!sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de!weber From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT]) Subject: Re: Cannot mount root during install? Message-ID: <1995May19.151807.22685@rhrk.uni-kl.de> Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany References: <3o4lp2$b2i@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <3p5ds3$rc1@passion.nosc.mil> <3p8ui1$r4g@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <3pakru$m8h@agate.berkeley.edu> <3pb1t4$pbg@nntp5.u.washington.edu> Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 15:18:07 GMT Lines: 35 Hello, [Yes, I know. I'm years too late with this article. This University's policy on acceptable level of service wrt Usenet goes along the 'be glad it works at all' line, which means a typical 7 days delay for incoming messages, and also a few days for outgoing ones. *shrug*] tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes: >To recap, when I try to install on the second drive, it goes well to >the point where I'm supposed to reboot from the hard disk (e.g., it >makes the file system, mounts it, copies the stuff from the first >floppy over, and tells me to reboot). When I get the boot prompt, >I tell it hd(1,a)/kernel (I'm reporting from memory here, so I may >not have the syntax exactly right). The kernel loads from the hard >disk, initializes all my devices, and appears to be real happy. Until >it gets to the point where it is to mount root. It then panics, saying >that it cannot mount root. Ok. This should apply only if you have 1 IDE and one SCSI drive. If you have two scsi drives, boot sd(1,a)/kernel, with two IDEs try wd(1,a)/kernel. The SCSI version works fine here with 2.0R . You can also change the bootblock to default the way you need it, tell me if you need details. Regards Christoph Weber-Fahr -- Christoph Weber-Fahr | E-Mail: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de Universitaet Kaiserslautern, KIT | S-Mail: Postfach 3049 Tel. 0631/205-3391 | D-67653 Kaiserslautern -------------------------- My personal opinion only ---------------------