From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 9 05:33:23 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id FAA09435 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 05:33:23 -0800 Received: from w8hd2.w8hd.org (w8hd2.w8hd.org [198.252.159.25]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA09429 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 05:33:18 -0800 Received: (from kimc@localhost) by w8hd2.w8hd.org (8.6.9/w8hd2) with id IAA05820 ; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 08:33:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 08:33:02 -0500 (EST) From: Kim Culhan To: Emmett Price cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Install problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 Feb 1995, Emmett Price wrote: > troubleshooting read me file. the system boots and then "panics" out unable > to mount the root filesystem. > > If I reboot from the floppy and run the install program again, the disklabel > show the disk slices are still correct, but all assignment info is gone. I > tried reassigning the slices, writing the disklabel (successfully), entering > quit, then reentering the disklabel function and doing a reread. This also > shows the assignments are gone. I can hear the disk being written whenever > I write the disklab What is the error message printed to the console (if any..) ? I've been working on waht sounds like a similar problem for days and posted a description to this list, no response so far though. kim -- kimc@w8hd.org