From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 29 10:51:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02115 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:51:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02108 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:51:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from direct-source.com.direct-source.com (ppp100.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.100]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA01249; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:51:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:42:52 -0800 () From: Rick Hamell To: Al Stodolski cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic Can't mount root In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@direct-source.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm am almost certain that I am doing the install correctly on a 1.2G drive West Dig Caviar split in two with Win95 on the first partition and installing FreeBSD on the extended partition (deleting slice then creating new slice for FreeBSD). I do a small installation "User with X Windows". everything goes smooth until I re-boot then I get the "panic can't mount root". This is the fourth time I've attempted this and it's getting !@#$%#@# frustrating > > PLEEEEEEZ HELP! Please set your Email to wrap at 70-80 lines. From a dos boot disk do fdisk /mbr If that does not work, reinstall again and use the BootManager option. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message