From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 20 23:14:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA19022 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 23:14:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from pigeon.vut.edu.au (pigeon.vut.edu.AU [140.159.30.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA19017 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 23:13:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michellg@dingo.vut.edu.au) Received: from dingo.vut.edu.au (dingo.vut.edu.au [140.159.1.5]) by pigeon.vut.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07719 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 18:14:34 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <3475340A.7CDF951F@dingo.vut.edu.au> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 18:11:06 +1100 From: damian X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: help neededFreebsd X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi ,I hoe you will be able to help me with the following problem. I bought Free BSD 2.2.5 last week and I am unable to get it to work .I go through all of the setup from floppy disk and when I reboot the machine it goes through all of it`s paces then come up with "Panic:unable to mount root" then says that it is going to reboot in 15 seconds. Please help as I am new to this softwear and I really wish to learn more about Unix. Damian Gillespie