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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!nntp04.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!agate!overload.lbl.gov!gracie.lbl.gov!jin From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: panic: can't mount root again!!! Date: 30 Aug 1996 00:06:33 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 24 Message-ID: <505ba9$6fp@overload.lbl.gov> References: <3223BD46.3E17@sprynet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gracie.lbl.gov In article <3223BD46.3E17@sprynet.com>, Dave Blizzard <dblizzar@sprynet.com> wrote: >Using the fixit floppy I can mount sd0 (on /mnt) and see all the files >in / (the original / on sd0) but I can't make fsck work. After the last >time this happened I have even saved a copy of a valid fstab on the >fixit floppy but when I run fsck it says that /dev/rsd0a is invalid and >then says it can't cat the other files mentioned in the fstab. >This problem is a real problem for me as this OS seems to be so unstable >that I cannot trust it for real work. The only thing that has happened >(I think) is that I accidentally booted from a floppy instead of >entering boot: sd(1,a)/kernel. You may try this at boot prompt: 1:sd(0,a) sd(1,a) may not exist on your system, so you get panic. -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!g_jin@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov |