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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Boot Problem
Date: 17 Mar 1997 23:35:07 GMT
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Hugh T Ha <hughth@uclink4.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> changing rot device to wd1a
> panic cannot mount root
Lemme guess: your drive is the master on the secondary controller, and
you don't have a slave on the primary?
If so:
1: boot with 1:wd(2,a)/kernel
2: write down all the information next time, as opposed to just what
you think might be important ;-)
--
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. ;-)