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From: "Cosmic 665" <the_hermit665@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Boot problems
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 10:00:04 PST
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Did you try the "boot -s" string??  if your able to get to a prompt the take 
a look at you fstab file (vi /etc/fstab).  You may have left out your "/" 
partition... :P

-Cosmic-665


>Here's the story. I thought I could get through an initial install. I'm
>putting FreeBSD on a "dummy" machine (Pentium 66 16mb 1gb) to test some
>things. Any three of the installs goes through fine. I try to boot and it
>gives me something like this;
>
>ERROR: Panic: Cannot mount root (6)
>
>Syncing disks... done
>
>And then it forces a reboot. It keeps on doing this. The hard drive seems
>fine and I cleared the kernel of anything that wasn't physically there.
>
>Someone help... any suggestions? Reinstall? With what
>options/configurations?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>
>Ryan M. Gamo
>Southern California Edison
>Information Technology
>IT Application Services - TDBU
>PAX: 51234       *          GamoRM
>"KNOW YOUR ROLE"
>
>
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