Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 02:29:32 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: pedrosal@nce.ufrj.br (Pedro Salenbauch) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, bugs@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Changing root and PANIC! Message-ID: <4221.809170172@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Aug 1995 23:17:05 EST." <9508230217.AA01188@rocinha.nce.ufrj.br>
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[Please, just ONE group in the future - we don't need 3 copies of the same message!] > I tried several times to install BSD 2.0.5, but always had the > same problem: I am using the fourth "slice" of my SCSI hard > disk, "sd0s4" for BSD, but when I boot it, comes the message > "changing root device to sd2a" and PANIC! Yow! Why is it trying to boot from your CDROM, I wonder? It should be trying to change the root device to sd0a, not sd2a! Are you doing anything especially creative in the installation? I really don't see how this could happen unless you're typing something weird at the boot prompt. Jordan
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