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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 1995 08:56:25 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        evan@probita.com (Evan Polster)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
Subject:   Re: Boot error: changing root device to sda1
Message-ID:  <199507252326.IAA03792@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <9507251931.AA22847@loon.probita.com> from "Evan Polster" at Jul 25, 95 01:31:26 pm

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Evan Polster stands accused of saying:
>   Your patience is truely admirable.

You gotta be kidding 8)

>   That notwithstanding:
> 
>   I attempted to boot with the -s option
> 
>   >>  Boot: -s 
> 
>   and the root prompt (#) did not come up before I got to
>   the dreaded error:
> 
> 	changing root device to sd1a
> 	panic: unable to mount root.

Ok; did you try

Boot: hd(1,a)/kernel -s

(The 'boot' prompt specifically describes this for these situations)

> Evan Polster

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