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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-was.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Kernel panic after bootup Date: 31 Mar 1997 18:30:08 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5hovrg$b82@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <859601445.4199@dejanews.com> <01bc3c33$09de6620$e8206dc2@taco> <01bc3d27$b78fba40$1b618bd0@nevin.shadowave.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38170 "Nevin K Ng" <nevin@iname.com> wrote: > I have the same problem too, when I successfully installed > 2.1.6-RELEASE on my second HD, it just can't mount the root and > reboot. If I type 1:wd(2,a)/kernel during the boot prompt, then > everythings went ok... So you already know the basic solution. Likely the same for the other folks posting this question. > I have tried to modify the biosboot makefile > that included the harddisk bias flag and compile it again, and it > still does works...any help? Compiling and installing isn't sufficient. You also need to reinstall the bootblocks onto your harddisk: disklabel -B wd2 -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)