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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!netsys.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!enews.sgi.com!sgigate.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!lexis-nexis!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!usenet From: Jeff Genender <jgenend@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: PANIC:Cannot mount root Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 23:50:46 -0500 Organization: Savoir Technologies Lines: 55 Message-ID: <318AE226.2E72@ibm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip166-72-218-74.il.us.ibm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (Win95; I) Hello to anybody: I realllllllyyyyy need some help. I have installed ( and this is no joke or lie) FreebSD 42 times on my computer trying every configuration under the sun and I now believe I am either going crazy, missing a configuration, or have one of those quarky systems that won't let FreeBSD run. Any how, I have a Gateway 2000 Pentium 90Mhz with 40 Mb RAM a 1Gig EIDE drive with a Mitsumi EIDE CD Rom, and an Adaptec 1542CF with 2 1Gig hard drives. The system is set up as follows: EIDE ---- 1 Gig Hard Drive - 1 Partition with DOS, Windows 95, and Windows NT. Uses the Windows NT loader. Mitsumi EIDE CD - FX400 Adaptec 1542CF -------------- Drive 1 (SCSI 0) (0x81) - Known as the 'D:' drive and is one large extended Dos partition. Drive 2 (SCSI 1) (0x82) - First 600 MB partitioned as NTFS drive and the Next 405MB partitioned as FreeBSD The problem is, I can install FreeBSD without any problem. I then go to boot (with the floppy) and type in sd(1,a)/kernel (for the second drive) and it does nothing. I then type in sd(2,a)/kernel and it begins to boot and I then get the famous 'PANIC: Cannot mount root'. I have tried booting with every type of combination and I still get the PANIC message. In addition, I tried to erase the NTFS partition and give the whole drive to FreeBSD. No luck, same message. I have also tried swapping SCSI logical numbers (making the second disk SCSI 0 and the first disk SCSI 1), but as you probably already guessed, no luck again. The only other think I can think of is that maybe the disk itself will need to boot. If this is true, how can I get the boot manager (the one that comes with FreeBSD of course) boot this drive from the C drive? It won't even recognize that FreeBSD is on the SCSI second drive. Does anyone have any ideas? I will try anything that I already haven't done. Thanks!!!!!!!! Jeff Genender jgenend@ibm.net -- //Jeff Genender //Savoir Technologies //jgenend@ibm.net // //"Providing Systems Solutions to Business"