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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.mtu.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!fido.news.demon.net!demon!newsgate.unisource.nl!news.unisource.nl!xs4all!not-for-mail From: "Taco Scargo" <taco@pulse.nl> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Kernal panic mounting root. PLEASE HELP !!!! Date: 1 Apr 1997 17:57:05 GMT Organization: Pulse Interactive Sender: pulse@compaq.webguide.nl Message-ID: <01bc3ec6$1922f7a0$f629e5c2@compaq.webguide.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: compaq.webguide.nl X-XS4ALL-Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 19:57:05 CEST X-XS4ALL-User: pulse@xs4all.nl on compaq.webguide.nl X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Lines: 25 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38258 As already described some days ago, I (and some other people I found out) have the following problem: After recompiling the kernal (with no errors), the machine does boot up, but as soon as it tries to mount / (root) it fails and reboots with a kernal panic. The / (root) partion is located on the first partition of the second partition (The scsi harddisk has two partitions, one (small) dos, one FreeBSD which is divided into / (root), /swap & /usr. I have had the idea this was caused by the "config kernel root on sd0" option not being correct, but I am not so sure anymore... The strange thing however is that the standard precompiled GENERIC kernal works fine. I am not a star on FreeBSD so I'm not so sure how I can proceed. The precompiled kernal works fine, but I need to use the 192K of memory it does not recognise, so I have to compile it myself. Another problem is that the machine is already in production, and is located at a remote location, so I am not able to experiment a lot ... Hopefully somebody can help me ! Thanks, Taco