From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Apr 7 22:18:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp4.jps.net (smtp4.jps.net [209.63.224.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C005815238 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 22:18:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ulairi@jps.net) Received: from default (208-237-196-18.irv.jps.net [208.237.196.18]) by smtp4.jps.net (8.9.0/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA12626; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 06:17:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ulairi" To: "G Murugan" Cc: "Newbies" Subject: RE: Panic: Cannot mount root Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 10:14:10 -0700 Message-ID: <001e01be811a$0d836400$12c4edd0@default> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <87323DE917E1D011ACFC00A0C955B04B4C4638@MAIL> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If I recall properly, a panic like this would be caused if FreeBSD was unable to locate the HD where it used to see it. Like if it was a Master on IDE1 in the original computer, and it has now become Slave. Or if the partition table has become corrupt or not what the OS expects it to be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message