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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: panic: Nobody wants to mount my root
Date: 26 May 1996 21:26:43 GMT
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Phill Glasson <pglasson@albury.net.au> wrote:

> I get the error as the final phase of kernel load happens.
> 
> panic: Nobody wants to mount my root.

What a prosaic system. ;-)

(Btw.: panic("Nobody wants to mount my root for me"); )
                                            ^^^^^^

Is this a customized kernel?  The only reason i could figure out by
looking at the code is that you've excluded all file system types that
are potential root file systems.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)