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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news3.near.net!news.ner.bbnplanet.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!usenet From: Jeff Genender <jgenend@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Panic: Cannot mount root Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 18:54:57 -0500 Organization: Savoir Technologies Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3187F9D1.676B@ibm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip166-72-218-114.il.us.ibm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (Win95; I) Please help: I have a Gateway 2000 90 Mhz Pentium with 40 Meg RAM, and IDE 1 Gig drive, and an Adaptec 1542 CF with 2 1 Gig Hard Drives. The Hard drives are setup as follows: 1 Gig IDE --------- 1 Partitioned as Primary DOS runs DOS, Windows NT, Windows 95 Adaptec 1542 ------------ Drive (0x81) Partitioned as extended DOS Drive (0x82) Partitioned as 600 MB NTFS and 405 MB FreeBSD I can install FreeBSD absolutely fine. But when it goes to reboot for its first boot, I will use the boot floppy and I will type SD(2,a)/kernel. This will start the boot process and when it tries to load the root, it says 'PANIC: Cannot mount root.' It will then proceed to reboot. This will happen continually. Anybody have any ideas? Also, for those who do, please explain as specific as possible as I have tried just about everything explained in the newsgroups, and FreeBSD web pages. -- //Jeff Genender //Savoir Technologies //jgenend@ibm.net // //"Providing Systems Solutions to Business"