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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: can't mount root ??
Date: 17 Mar 1997 22:41:38 GMT
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A8502149@mail.ntit.edu.tw (A8502149) wrote:

> Hello there,
>    I have a 2.1G HD on my primary IDE bus and  a CD-ROM drive (master)
>    a 120M HD (slave) on secondary IDE bus.
>    When I try to boot FreeBSD(R2.1.5) from the 120M HD,FreeBSD complain about
>    "can't mount root,....".

Boot with

	1:wd(2,a)/kernel

Also RTFM nextboot(8).

-- 
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. ;-)