From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 16:40:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17196 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:40:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17179 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:40:23 -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 2.053 #1) id 0zgec0-000497-00; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 00:39:48 +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 AAA00313; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 00:39:21 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20769; Fri, 20 Nov 98 00:39:19 GMT Message-Id: <3654B8D9.DC87FD09@uk.radan.com> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 00:33:29 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help: panic: cannot mount root References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > 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. > > See http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ, question 2.25. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org ...and Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > Try to do a boot with -v and try to get some info our way =) > > Also regarding hardware... > > Might be more helpful =) > Thanks for the feeback guys. I did, however, post a follow up (with "Forgat it" appended to the original Subject) because my colleague had told me he'd "read all the help files" which I took to mean the Handbook & FAQ. Turns out he just meant the *.txt files on CD 1. As Doug pointed out, the answer is in FAQ 2.25 (he's got the disk as the master on the second IDE controller). Thanks again for taking the time to reply. -- hotmail.com - owned by Microsoft, powered by FreeBSD :-) Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.uk.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message