On Fri, 14 Feb 1997 JString@aol.com wrote:

> Having moved my Conner 420Mb over to the Rapide, I'm having problem booting
> BSD. (the CFS420 is the master drive, with a Fireball set as slave) The
> kernel I'm running is the last one from the FTP site samed sa110....

is BSD on the conner or the fireball?
 
> The Unix partition uses the last 350Mb of the disc. I changed the devices in
> the !BTRiscBSD app config window to WD1a & WD1b (cheers for the info Chris!)
> When I attempt to boot, things seem to be going fine until filesystem type
> things start happening, at which point I get :
>
> panic: cannot mount root
> stopped at 0xf.... blah blah

Perhaps you've got the wrong drive number, I assumed, wrongly, that you'd
make the riscbsd disc the slave, this numbers it as wd1 if it is infact
the master you need it as wd0 (I just added mine as a slave), mainly
because it saved having to alter boot configuration.
 
> As well as this, I can't seem to get unixfs to mount it either.
> Am I right in saying that you can't have a RiscBSD Partition that occupies
> the whole of a disc? I know I've read it somewhere, but I don't know if this
> is out of date.
> Ideally, I'd like to be able to salvage some of the info on the drive, and
> redo the Conner as 100% RiscBSD.

Unixfs won't mount it without the right number (which I can't remember)
how much of the disc is already RiscBSD? I think you can make the whole
disc BSD, but am not sure how, I prefer having the disc with a small adfs
partition, allows me to keep the booter on the same disc.  It also means
that I could put it in anyone elses RPC if they wanted to see RiscBSD.
You can't use unixfs with a complete riscbsd disc either.

Cheers,

Chris Gilbert