From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 1 11:11:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA17421 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 11:11:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from proxyb2.san.rr.com (proxyb2-atm.san.rr.com [204.210.0.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA17412 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 11:11:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (dt051n19.san.rr.com [204.210.32.25]) by proxyb2.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA10522; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 11:11:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <34D4C8CA.74ED6505@san.rr.com> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 11:11:06 -0800 From: Studded Organization: DALnet IRC Network X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE-0131 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Patrick R. Montgomery" <103007.526@compuserve.com> CC: All Subject: Re: System Boot Problems References: <199802011259_MC2-3173-82C6@compuserve.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" Patrick R. Montgomery wrote: > > I am having some serious problems getting my system to boot up in FreeBSD > version 2.2.1 or 2.2.5. I have tried installing both versions and I get > the same result. After going through almost the entire boot process, I get > a panic:cannot mount root error. Could somebody please shed some light on > how to get around this issue or how to resolve the problem. Assuming that you are working with a multi-disk system, this is an easily solvable problem. Search the mail archives http://www.freebsd.org/search.html for the exact error messages, and look for answers from Doug White. Good luck, Doug -- *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,120 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) *** Part of the DALnet IRC network ***