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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Panic: Cannot mount root Date: 4 May 1996 11:14:49 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4mfe79$lob@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3187F9D1.676B@ibm.net> 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 Jeff Genender <jgenend@ibm.net> wrote: > Adaptec 1542 > ------------ > > Drive (0x81) Partitioned as extended DOS > > Drive (0x82) Partitioned as 600 MB NTFS and 405 MB FreeBSD > > I can install FreeBSD absolutely fine. But when it goes to reboot for > its first boot, I will use the boot floppy and I will type > SD(2,a)/kernel. This will start the boot process and when it tries to > load the root, it says 'PANIC: Cannot mount root.' Try ``hd(1,a)/kernel''. I'm not sure whether unit numbers != 1 are supported for the `hd' pseudo-controller, but that's the way to go. There's a more generic method available in the -current bootblocks, it allows for arbitrary mappings between BIOS drive numbers and BSD controller names/unit numbers. (Bruce Evans' original subject when posting it to the mailing lists was: ``booting from sd5 when wd3 is also installed'' :-) -- 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. ;-)