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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 15:32:20 -0500 (EST)
From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu>
Subject: Re: Installation
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To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: BRIAN FONG <fwkh@pc.jaring.my>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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Instead of hard coding the root on what in my kernel, I use the
boot.config file in / to specify the optional boot options for my box.

Joe Clarke

On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Doug White wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, BRIAN FONG wrote:
> 
> > I choose F2 and it boots and tell me cant find boot.config and cant find
> > boot.help. Afterwhich it will also tell em it cant find kernel. 
> 
> The first two is OK, the third one is bad.
> 
>  If you get the message:
> panic: Cannot mount root
> 
> At the end of the probe sequence you should either:
> 1. Have the line:
> config kernel root on wd2
> 
> in your kernel config,
> OR:
> 
> 2. Rename the second disk to wd1 in the kernel config (comment out the 
> original wd1 line and change the wd2 line to read wd1, leaving all other 
> parameters unchanged).
> 
> > I cant find any suggestion on the web pages so i hope you can help.
> 
> What?  You missed the mail archives; I've posted that countless times!
> 
> > </fontfamily></bold><smaller>#9.02, 9TH FLR, MENARA
> 
> HTMLized mail sent to Internet mailing lists is genreally considered bad
> form. 
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
> 
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