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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!koonda.acci.com.au!ggr From: ggr@koonda.acci.com.au (Greg Rose) Subject: [386bsd] Can't boot from partition. Message-ID: <9226116.6625@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU Reply-To: ggr@koonda.acci.com.au (Greg Rose) Organization: Australian Computing and Communications Institute Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1992 06:24:16 GMT Lines: 20 I got the 386bsd binary distribution and have just started trying to get it going. Works fine from floppy, but when I try to install it on a partition on the winchester it goes into an infinite rebooting cycle. The error message, as best as I can make out, is a panic: can't mount root, or something like that (the message of course disappears almost instantly as it tries to reboot). Afterwards, fdisk (DRDOS5.0 version) won't touch the partition, alternately insisting that it is doesn't exist (when trying to delete it) or already exists (when trying to create it). It does show a second partition being there, of type 'dos ext'. I've done my best, searching all the archived FAQs and bug lists, but nothing seems to apply to this problem. Help, Please. -- Greg Rose Australian Computing and Communications Institute ggr@acci.com.au +61 3 282 2532 "If you ever do that again, I'll cut you out of my will!" -- Captain Ross to Co-pilot Gann, "Fate is the Hunter"