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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.se.dataphone.net!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!pegasus.PFM-Mainz.de!forthdv.pfm-mainz.de!stephan From: stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth) Subject: Re: Boot FreeBSD from JAZ? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color PL0] Lines: 25 Organization: Forth EDV Beratung+Schulung Message-ID: <E9AD2y.587@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> References: <5ju3ua$uuu$1@polo.iquest.com> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 07:35:22 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39827 Dougal Campbell (dougal@vespucci.iquest.com) wrote: : I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.1 on my new machine with: : Adaptec 2940UW : internal JAZ : : Everthing seems to go fine during the install, but when I go to : actually boot it up after the install it complains that it can't mount : the root partition, panics, and reboots. : : Any advice? I am not sure. You told the adaptec to boot form the drive wit scsi-id 4. The installation of FreeBSD assumes that the booting drive is /dev/sd0. Physicaly it is /dev/sd1, because you have another drive in your computer. Try to boot the fixit floppy and change all partitions in /etc/fstab from /dev/sd0<something> to /dev/sd1<something> Regards, Stephan -- FORTH EDV Beratung + Schulung stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de Martin-Luther-Str. 55 voice: +49 6131 581072 55131 Mainz, Germany fax: +49 6131 581073