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From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
To: King-Hou Lam <lamki@cs.ucdavis.edu>
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Subject: Re: panic, can not mount root
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On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, King-Hou Lam wrote:

> 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. 

Just press return/enter. And it will run in multi-user mode.

This should mount / correctly.

Or, if it isn't booting, type:

-s [ENTER]

at the boot: prompt. At the shell prompt, press [ENTER] again.

Then try something like:

fsck

This will check the drive.

Regards,

d.

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