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From: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>
To: Lamine Sano <sanol@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Root distribution
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On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Lamine Sano wrote:

> trying to do a dos install since my mitsumi cdrom is not being 
> recognized by freebsd v.2.1 probing.  After all goes well during the 
> verbose messages prompting sequence, I am faced to that failure when the 
> system is creating the root filesystem.
> 

That is an IDE CD-ROM, right?  It is said that those work most often when 
configured as a slave on the primary IDE bus or, if that fails, as master 
on the secondary IDE bus.  Where do you have it?

> 
> 
> Doug White wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Lamine Sano wrote:
> > 
> > > I get the following message after freebsd is trying to create the root
> > > filesystem:
> > > Failed to load the root distribution.
> > > What's going on and what is the remedy ?
> > 
> > What version of FreeBSD are you installing on?  Via what method?
> > Details....
> > 
> > Doug White                              | University of Oregon
> > Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
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 Ben