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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 08:39:46 +0300
From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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To: Randy DuCharme <randyd@nconnect.net>
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Subject: Re: PANIC!: unable to mount root
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Randy DuCharme wrote:
> 
> On 15-Sep-96 "Josh Emmons (skia)" wrote:
> >>I have a computer with three IDE devices (UGH! I hate them, but they were
> >cheep...):
> >a Seagate 2gig hard drive.
> >a 8x CD-ROM
> >and a Conner 800Mb Hard disk.
> 
> < snip >
> 
> >The installation seems to run fine.  It probes all the drives, sees them
> >all.  It works fine.  I set up a slice on the 800Mb drive and use the
> >correct geometry.  I have FreeBSD auto-generate the lables, select the
> >"X-User" distribution, and then commit.  After installation is finishe, I
> >reboot the machine and wait for Booteasy.  I the hit F5 to switc to the
> >other drive (the 800Mb one) and hit F1 for BSD.  It then gives me a boot:
> >prompt and I hit enter to use the defaults.  It probes and finds all my
> >drives.  Then it says something like "switching root system to WD1a" and
> >the line after that says: PANIC!: unable to mount root.
> < snip >
> 
> At the boot prompt type wd(1,a)/kernel and it should boot.  (kernel.GENERIC
> boots the GENERIC kernel)  For it to boot automatically, you'll have to
> build a kernel with the option:
> 
>     config      kernel root on wd1You probably meant wd2 here ---->^^^. For wd1 I think it'll work right out of 
the box. Also note that you'll have to switch disk positions once, so you can 
boot and make your new kernel...
> 	[snip]
> 
> Good luck
> 
> RandyNadav