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Date:      Sat, 2 May 1998 21:50:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        STG <shitg@public.intercom.com.cn>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980502214920.21194j-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01bd75e2$d4113c80$4feea0a8@------>

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On Sat, 2 May 1998, STG wrote:

> I got a copy of FREEBSD2.2.5. The installation is OK, bbut when I start
> , it always tell me "panic:cannot mount root" , and then the system
> reboot.  My computer is P5-133, 48M RAM, 4.3G Hard Disk, with WINDOWS95
> installed. I assigned a space of about 500M for freebsd.  Could you tell
> me why? 

You probably have your CD placed between your disks or some type of
misconfiguration on your IDE bus.  Move your FreeBSD disk so that it's the
first disk in the system then do the following:

 If you get the message:
panic: Cannot mount root

At the end of the probe sequence you should either:
1. Have the line:
config kernel root on wd2

in your kernel config,
OR:

2. Rename the second disk to wd1 in the kernel config (comment out the 
original wd1 line and change the wd2 line to read wd1, leaving all other 
parameters unchanged).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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