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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: "Can not mount root files"
Date: 27 Dec 1996 16:30:00 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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bvjdj@dibbs.net (Bruce V. Jernigan) wrote:
> When my installation is
> completed it starts to boot but stops after a few minutes with the
> message" Panic: Can not mount root files" Then it reboots. I have
root filesystem
> I am
> attempting to install it on the final partition, 500 megs, of my
> second drive, a 2 Gig Maxtor. It is the master on my secondary
> controller.
Boot with:
1:wd(2,a)/kernel
For BSD, the first disk on wdc1 is wd2 (i.e., the third possible `wd'
drive), while it's the second disk (#1 when counting 0-based) for the
BIOS. There's a parameter called BOOT_HD_BIAS in the bootblock
Makefiles you can tweak to get another default behaviour. The
bootblocks are in sys/i386/boot/biosboot.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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