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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!warwick!yama.mcc.ac.uk!news.york.ac.uk!pih100 From: pih100@york.ac.uk (PI Halliday) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: panic: cannot mount root Date: 9 Feb 1996 00:10:17 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4fe3d9$h87@netty.york.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: tower.york.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I keep getting the above subject message when trying to reboot FreeBSD 2.1.0 after installing it. There shouldn't be anything special with my hardware (486DX2/50 - 8Mb RAM), except that I'm running two IDE HD's: 1Gb Seagate 250Mb Seagate I don't have an EIDE controller but this has never presented a problem - I've been running DOS, OS/2 and Linux for almost a year now without any real complaints (obviously neither DOS nor OS/2 can access the second half of the 1Gb disk, but I have Linux using most of that). I can install FreeBSD without any apparent errors. I can work using the 'install shell' that is spawned during installation - compiling things is no problem. Mounting other partitions such as DOS is ok. I've tried installing it to both disks in various places but always the same problem occurs - there should be no EIDE problems with the second drive. Its only 1001 cylinders. I'm trying to use this drive for FreeBSD at the moment. Despite selecting the various boot options (standard boot manager, or boot partition option) it doesn't seem to alter the boot parameters of the first drive. Thats ok - I always boot Linux off floppy. I reboot the machine using the installation boot floppy, enter the partition device name, and it starts booting quite merrily, probing for the various devices, then at the end, gives the 'panic' message and says its going to reboot in 15 secs. Having tried this 12 times I figure its not just the location on the disk. Trying to mount the partition under Linux warns me that there is 'invalid superblock information' at the beginning of the partition so it won't mount. Haven't located anything in the FAQ's I've looked at about this. Any ideas as to why this is happening? Thanks anyway. Paul. -- Paul Halliday, pih100@tower.york.ac.uk