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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 13:02:15 -0800
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From: Steve Leibel <stevel@coastside.net>
Subject: The dreaded "cannot mount root"
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I just installed FreeBSD on my Pentium system.  The install is indeed 
on the second IDE drive, a situation covered by the manual.  The 
manual says to try

boot 1:wd(2,a)kernel

but I get "kernel already loaded" and when I try "unload" and retry 
the boot command, I get another error message.

Any suggestions?

Steve L


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