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To: pedrosal@nce.ufrj.br (Pedro Salenbauch)
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Subject: Re: Changing root and PANIC! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Aug 1995 23:17:05 EST."
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 02:29:32 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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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