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From: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at>
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Subject: RE: error 6: panic: can not mount root (2)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Earle Flynn-E|F|X [SMTP:efx@cityusa.net]
> Sent:	Friday, June 25, 1999 5:02 AM
> To:	freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject:	error 6: panic: can not mount root (2)
> 
> Upon reboot after my first install this message. Any help?
> This is the full console message:
> *Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> *Changing root device to da1s2a
> *changing root device to da1a
> *error 6: panic: can not mount root (2)
> 
> My setup is IDE & SCSI disks. The IDE is the primary DOS boot and can
> not
> spare the space ;-). The second disk is the SCSI disk, where my
> FreeBSD 3.2
> partition resides. With help from the FAQ & maillists it seems as
> though the
> 'boot blocks' point to the right place to begin probing for devices.
> Which
> it does fairly smoothly. I liked how easy it was to select devices
> during
> install. Then the kernel points to the wrong place to mount \.
> 
> SCSI Disk Name da0
> da0s1 FAT partition
> da0s2 FreeBSD partition
> da0s2a is \
> 
> I tried 0:da(2a) Kernel at boot prompt. No luck. But I am not sure if
> I
	[ML]  The literal string looks like this for your case:

	1:da(0,a)kernel

	Please, note the leading one, a comma between zero and a, zero,
standing for da0, no blank between closing parenthesis and kernel, and
lowercased kernel.

	This works for me.

	/Marino
> totally know which prompt I should be at. What am I missing? Thanks
> for any
> help!
> 
> 
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