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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Subject: Panic: Can't mount root Message-ID: <1993Mar25.180338.1249@coe.montana.edu> Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: CS Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 18:03:38 GMT Lines: 24 Well, I've had such good luck with all the DEC PC's I've installed this on, I decided to head off and try another no-name clone. Bummer. It's an "Ariel Research???" 486 50 EISA, 512k cache, adaptec 1740. Micronics (I think) motherboard, and a Phoenix BIOS. (But a weird one. Doesn't look anything like my other Phoenix BIOS's in my DEC PC's). The dist floppy boots fine, loads the OS, then says reboot. I hit reboot, it comes up, makes it just past probing for devices, and then Panic's with a "Can't mount root". Can I just throw a sleep inside panic() or something so I have to hit a key to continue so I can read the damn messages? A gets()? Anything? Any thoughts appreciated. I'm going to try turning off caching, and shadowing and all that stuff and see if it helps... Thanks. -- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu