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From: geordan@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Geordan Rosario)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: panic: cannot mount root
Date: 27 Aug 1996 12:50:03 -0700
Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley
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In article <4vtgsh$khv@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>,
Paul Chivers <pchivers@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>The PC resets and starts to boot FreeBSD. It goes through the entire
>device probe sequence OK. But at the end it displays:
>
> changing root device to wd1a
> panic: cannot mount root
When the boot prompt comes up ("Boot:") try "hd(1,a)/kernel".
-Geordan
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