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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.tacom.army.mil!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: freebsd installation woe Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 23:02:44 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 13 Message-ID: <31297214.15FB7483@FreeBSD.org> References: <4ftmbm$5vno@pegasus.unm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: boguslaw stanislaw malecki <bmalecki@unm.edu> boguslaw stanislaw malecki wrote: > Several days ago I installed without a hitch the latest version > of freebsd (off of DOS) unto a second IDE hard drive. However, now I cannot > boot up. I am getting a panic error saying, verbatum I believe, "can't > mount partition root" when I boot up using the hard disk based kernel. Are you using a boot manager? How are you getting the first stage of the boot to work for the second IDE drive? Try also booting with the -r flag and see what happens. I don't have such a system for testing so I can only guess, but... -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project