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Date:      Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:50:48 +0000
From:      Stuart Henderson <stuart@helan.org>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, freebsd-uk-users <freebsd-users@freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help: panic: cannot mount root
Message-ID:  <19981123095048.A12954@helan.org>
In-Reply-To: <3653EDB0.DE098790@uk.radan.com>; from Mark Ovens on Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 10:06:41AM %2B0000
References:  <3653EDB0.DE098790@uk.radan.com>

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On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 10:06:41AM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
> Can someone help with this pls.
> 
> I gave a colleague one of the free 2.2.6 CD sets. He tried installed
> it he got "panic: cannot mount root" immediately after the npx0: INT
> 16 interface message.

When this happened to me, I had to build a custom kernel with the root
device hardwired by using "config kernel root on sd0" in the kernel config.
If root is actually on wd0 then I think something weirder is going on.

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