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From: Miguel Angel Sagreras <msagre@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To: pokora@execpc.com
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Subject: Re: Mount root failure
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On Thu, 18 Jan 1996 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
> 
> What does this mean? Is there a way around it? Can I edit the configuration 
> so I can boot? What do I need to do to get the system to mount the device?
> Any other suggestion?
> 
> Thanks in advance!!
> 
> Ross
> 
> 

Try wd(1,a) if you have an IDE hardisk or sd(1,a) if you have a SCSI one.
I got this problem too.

    Miguel A. Sagreras
  Facultad de ingenieria
Universidad de Buenos Aires

e-mail : msagre@cactus.fi.uba.ar