From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 14:17:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17948 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:17:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17821 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:16:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA27320; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:16:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:16:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Gil cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another similar first install In-Reply-To: <199810161758.KAA26040@smtp2.jps.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Gil wrote: > I am having a problem similar to Bill Hamilton's. I have a Pentium > 166 on an Abit MB, 64MB ram , two FAT32 IDE drives on the first > IDE port and another IDE drive dedicated to FreeBSD (master) and > a CDROM on the second IDE port. My BIOS lets me choose my > boot drive and I have it set to E:. I installed FreeBSD, and the user > configuration showed no conflicts except for my Ps/2 mouse, > which configuration said was allowed. When I try to boot it I get a > message "Panic: cannot mount root". See http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/ Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message