From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 12 03:39:10 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id DAA03935 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 03:39:10 -0800 Received: from kilroy.id.net (kilroy.id.net [152.160.9.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA03929 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 03:39:06 -0800 From: elbbs.com!bigmac@kilroy.id.net Received: from zeus.id.net (zeus.id.net [152.160.9.11]) by kilroy.id.net (8.6.8/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA02745 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 06:38:52 -0500 Received: from elbbs.com (Uanctech@localhost) by zeus.id.net (8.6.8/8.6.6) with UUCP id GAA11226 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 06:49:20 -0500 Received: by elbbs.com (UUPM-1.51) id D1142Bo Thu, Jan 12, 1995 06:37:03 EST Message-Id: <9501120637.D1142Bo@elbbs.com> X-Mailer: UUPlus Mail 1.51 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Panic, cannot mount root? Organization: Electronic Lucidity BBS Date: Thu, 12 Jan 95 06:37:03 EST Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was doing pretty good on my installation until I got the msg. at the end of my first reboot after the installation, following the (F)Disking and (A)ssigning. I got the msg. "panic: cannot mount root Automatic Reboot in 15 seconds, press any key on the console to abort" This came after it prompted me for a different boot location, because I put everything on my second drive, hd1/wd1. patitions are setup as follows: a /var (10 megs) b swap 20 megs e /usr (100 megs) g / (20 megs) h /usr/x11r6 (50 megs) All on hd1/wd1. Yes, I followed the directions in Troubleshooting, but it didn't work when I put in hd(1,a)/kernel at boot. I then proceeded to try hd(1,b,c,d(etc))/kernel until hd(1,g)/kernel worked, and I at least got some kind of response. Everything went fine, so it seemed, until I got the aforementioned message. Help! If this should be directed somewhere else, I'd be happy to, tell me where! =) I just saw this in the RELNOTES file, and tried it. thanks for any info... Ken MacInnis