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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 11:24:22 -0800
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From: tprovenc@CUSD.Chico.k12.Ca.US (Tim Provencio)
Subject: Question on Problem
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I bought FreeBSD a little while ago and love it.  I have had a few sucessful
installations while bopping back and forth from operating system to operating
system.  Recently I have a stumper....

The configuration is as such:
I run a Windows 95 machine that in the past has devoted part of
a gig to FreeBSD.  Well I added a second gig for solely FreeBSD
use so I can run both operating systems on the machine at once
with a drive to each.  Soo...

Machine (Pentium 100MHz, Triton, 16 Megabyte, Onboard I/O Controllers) has:
Fujitsu 1 Gig, Master on Primary PCI IDE controller (dos & extended dos
partitions)
CD Rom (IDE), Slave on Primary PCI IDE Controller
Quantum Fireball 1.2 gig, Master on Sencondary PCI IDE Controller
   (set up using Novice FreeBSD install, was FreeBSD in another machine)
Floppies, etc, no SCSI or anything else, only PPP networking

Now, here is what happens...

It starts up fine, boot selector working, etc.  Problem is when you choose
to boot disk 2 (FreeBSD) it boots, goes thru detection of devices (haven't
tuned out unneeded one yet).  It detects everything fine but when it comes
to the time to mount the filesystem it says

PANIC:
Unable to mount root
and then goes into an automatic reboot state.

What gives... this is the only problem I've had with this software and I
figured it had to be a real simple solution that I just overlooked. I have
went back and checked the Installing & Running guide to no avail.
HELP!

Thank You

---Tim Provencio - Network Analyst
    tprovenc@CUSD.Chico.K12.Ca.US
    http://www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/~tprovenc