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#! rnews 987 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!kettle.magna.com.au!usenet From: kevin@magna.com.au (Kevin Tucker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Cannot mount root??? Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 13:32:05 GMT Organization: Hilltop Software Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3qhsc9$fgd@kettle.magna.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: erg.magna.com.au X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.46 I am trying to load FreeBSD 2.0 onto the second hard disk on a BusLogic BT-445S controller. I go through the floppy stuff apparently OK. At the boot prompt I give it the hd(1,a)/kernel command and it loads from the second disk OK. It does its hardware check then states: Changing root to sd0a Panic: cannot mount root Thinking that sd0a was the first disk I moved enough stuff to make a test partition on the first disk with no success. (It really would need to go on the second disk anyway.) Any ideas on this, or the answer, would be most welcome. Thanks Kevin