From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 04:58:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA28098 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 04:58:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA28093 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 04:58:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.05demon1 #1) id 0zgTet-00017R-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:58:04 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id MAA02582 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:56:23 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08203; Thu, 19 Nov 98 12:56:21 GMT Message-Id: <36541055.2C06B0FF@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:34:29 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help: panic: cannot mount root Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can someone help with this pls. I gave a colleague one of the free 2.2.6 CD sets. He tried installed it he got "panic: cannot mount root" immediately after the npx0: INT 16 interface message. He has tried disconnecting all his HD's except for the one he is putting FreeBSD on, re-installed on that disk. The install completes successfully but on rebooting he still gets this error. He's tried both with & without the FreeBSD boot manager but gets the same result. I haven't actually seen his m/c as it's a bit difficult for me to go to his house. Has anyone any idea how to fix this as I've never had this problem. I'm concerned that we can fix this as my colleague is a Windows user and sometime Linux user so he's not particularly impressed with FreeBSD so far :-( -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message