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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!pegasus2.astro.indiana.edu!sdslavin From: sdslavin@pegasus2.astro.indiana.edu (Shawn Slavin) Subject: Re: FreeBSD-1.1 installation woes Message-ID: <Csvs3n.CFL@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: pegasus2.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University References: <2vvb6v$jdd@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 13:28:34 GMT Lines: 34 In article <2vvb6v$jdd@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>, Jeff Aitken <jaitken@vt.edu> wrote: > [Stuff deleted ;) ] > >What happoened: Boot appeared to work fine (that is, it loaded the >kernel and prompted for the filesystems disk. Once that disk goes in, I >get the following messages: > [More stuff deleted] > >panic: cannot mount root >syncing disks ... done > >dumping to dev 1, offset 0 >dump device bad >automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort > Hi. I had this problem too. A friend who also experienced this mentioned that he got a second disk to do the job. What I did was to transfer the binary (via ftp to my school account, then to one of our PC's) *again*, replacing the old one, and I used rawrite to write a new filesystem floppy. Bingo, it worked. I'd suggest trying again, from scratch, as it worked for me. Good luck. -- Shawn Slavin Indiana University Astronomy Internet: sdslavin@pegasus2.astro.indiana.edu