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From: King-Hou Lam <lamki@cs.ucdavis.edu>
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Subject: panic, can not mount root
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I am trying to install freeBSD. I was able to install it from my cd-rom.
When everything is finished, the system reboots. And I got a screen asking
me 

boot:

I don't really know what to put in there. 

I have a western digital 3.1 Gig Hardrive. The first two gig is used by
dos.

What I put something there, like
0:wd(3,a)kernel

the system boots, but about 1 minutes later, it says 
panics, can not mount root


What is wrong? I have reinstalled freeBSD a couple times, but I still get
the same error. 

help...

thanks.

king lam