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#! rnews 2935 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!insync!uuneo.neosoft.com!usenet From: John Amason <jamason@neosoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PANIC:Cannot mount root Date: Sun, 05 May 1996 10:50:30 -0500 Organization: ICS Lines: 64 Message-ID: <318CCE46.4674@neosoft.com> References: <318AE226.2E72@ibm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: winnie-ppp-l2.neosoft.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I) Jeff Genender wrote: > > 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" If misery loves company, I have the exact same problem. Would some please post a solution. Is it disk geometry? Thanks, John