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From: David E. O'Brien <obrien@relay.nuxi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PANIC  Can not mount root
Date: 27 May 1997 06:40:30 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
> grizzly@ionet.net (Jay) wrote:

> > >I have just installed Free BSD V2.2.1. I am running Win95 on my primary
> > >drive. When I boot to the secondary drive with bootmgr BSD runs through
> > >the devices then I get a Panic error  "Can not mount root". What am I
> > >doing wrong?

> 1:wd(2,a)/kernel  (probably, see below)

Hack /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/Makefile to make this the default.
Then ``make ; make install''.   Then install the new boot blocks using
disklabel.

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-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)