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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: panic: Nobody wants to mount my root Date: 27 May 1996 02:36:04 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4ob4ek$1gb@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <4nsaab$d1f@mippet.ci.com.au> <4oaiaj$3ac@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <4oaiaj$3ac@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >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. ;-) Using etags, I found a couple of others to add to the list:- "ext2_balloc: something is terribly wrong" "panic for historical reasons" (or should that be hysterical reasons? 8-) >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. Same here. (This is in the configure() function in /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/autoconf.c, BTW). The following couple of lines from the LINT config file should show how to fix this:- # One of these is mandatory: options FFS #Fast filesystem options NFS #Network File System -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland jraynard@dial.pipex.com james@jraynard.demon.co.uk