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Date:      Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:54:55 -0800 
From:      "Gamo, Ryan M" <GAMORM@sce.com>
To:        "'the_hermit665@hotmail.com'" <the_hermit665@hotmail.com>, "'newbies@freebsd.org'" <newbies@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Boot problems
Message-ID:  <A7BFD9E8FBE4D111AB1600805FFE4FD7047A90B3@D066308.sce.com>

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So is everyone positive that I don't have to reinstall anything... this is
just one of those stupid device conflicts/issues?

> ----------
> From: 	Cosmic 665[SMTP:the_hermit665@hotmail.com]
> Sent: 	Monday, March 06, 2000 9:59 AM
> To: 	Gamo, Ryan M
> Subject: 	Re: Boot problems
> 
> 
> 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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