Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:00:46 -0500 From: "Tim M. Kelley" <tkelley@cy.com> To: pokora@execpc.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mount root failure Message-ID: <199601181801.NAA24720@cy.com>
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At 09:26 AM 1/18/96 -0600, pokora@execpc.com wrote:
>I've successfully install FreeBSD, or so the install program indicates as
>such. I've installed on my second hard drive. I reboot and use
>hd(1,a)/kernel as instructed, the kernel starts to boot, after a short time
>the boot process gives me an error message as follows:
>
>vg0(VGA-Campatible display device) rev142 int a irq ?? on pci0:5
>panic: cannot mount root
>
I ran into the same problem and here's how to boot FreeBSD. Assuming that
your FreeBSD boot disk is wd2, enter the following at the boot prompt:
wd(2,a)/kernel
FreeBSD should boot the kernel from the FreeBSD drive.
Tim Kelley
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