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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!oleane!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: panic: cannot mount root Date: 12 Feb 1996 11:00:02 GMT Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4fn6ji$pgn@sidhe.vtcom.fr> References: <4fe3d9$h87@netty.york.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.vtcom.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <4fe3d9$h87@netty.york.ac.uk>, PI Halliday <pih100@york.ac.uk> wrote: > 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. You have a conflict between the geometry seen by the BIOS (boot is done with the BIOS' routines) and the geometry as written by the installation program. Check with DOS or Linux which is the "right" geometry and re-install FreeBSD. During the partitionning stage, override the geometry. [[ cc'ed to Paul ]] -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-