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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 23:23:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: "Gary L. Leung" <garyl@uclink3.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: can't mount root
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On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Gary L. Leung wrote:

> i installed freebsd successfully and boot it from a floppy.  at the Boot:
> prompt i entered 1:sd(0,a)kernel because i installed bsd on the second
> partition of my second drive.  it then reaches a line which says 'panic:
> can't mount root' and reboots.  how can i fix that?

You have a SCSI disk?  That line boots the kernel off of the FIRST disk in
the SCSI disk chain.

I think you wanted this for a double-IDE situation:

wd(1,a)/kernel

Or am I misinterpeting you?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major