From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 20 15:58:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA03126 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 15:58:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop01.netaddress.usa.net (pop01.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA03118 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 15:58:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25524 invoked by uid 0); 20 May 1997 22:58:03 -0000 Received: from 198.79.45.73 by www03 via web-mailer (2.1) on Tue, 20 May 1997 16:57:22 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 16:57:22 From: "Drake" To: questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i need some help.i compiled the kernal.and it compiled ok.but when i tried to boot the new kernal,,,it said "cannot mount root".do you know what this error could mean? in the configuration file there was one thing that said root device is wd0 do you think that that may have been the wrong root device for my system? how can i determione the root device? i have an ide hard drive. i would really appreciate any help,,and another thing,,how do you get back into the system if i cant boot the new kernal??