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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@portsoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Kernal panic mounting root. PLEASE HELP !!!!
Date: 2 Apr 1997 23:21:52 GMT
Organization: Portland Software
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Your going to have to spend time experimenting, you cannot do this
long-distance.

I suggest that you recompile the kernel to use 80MB of ram and see if that
works.  If it does, then recompile to use 100MB and test, if this works
then recompile to use 120MB, etc. etc. etc.

However, before doing this I'd suggest you turn all of the caches off in
the CMOS and reboot with the large memory kernel, and see if this works. 
You might have a cache controller on the MB with a bug in it.


Taco Scargo <taco@pulse.nl> wrote in article
<01bc3ec6$1922f7a0$f629e5c2@compaq.webguide.nl>...
> 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