From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 8 05:39:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA20727 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 05:39:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp2.globalserve.net (smtp2.globalserve.net [209.90.128.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA20711 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 05:39:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scqdaf@globalserve.net) Received: from [209.90.134.42] (dialin1059.toronto.globalserve.net [209.90.134.42]) by smtp2.globalserve.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA02359 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 08:46:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from scqdaf@globalserve.net) X-Sender: scqdaf@mail.globalserve.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 07:16:15 -0400 To: FreeBSD-Questions From: Dennis Favro Subject: Help -- PANIC: Cannot Mount Root Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, this is right cheesing me off... I've gone though the install process about six times and mymacine keeps giving me a "panic: cannot mount root". Now, either I'm doing something wrong when I setup the disk, or there's something funky with my hardware. I'm thinking its hardware because I can't get WindowsNT to setup without giving me a STOP error on loading the NT Executive (but I'm not terribly interested in NT, so it can wait.. :) ) I can only guess its one of two things: 1. I have an Adapter 1542, with two HDs attached to it. SCSI 0 contains my failsafe Windows startup. SCSI 1 is partitioned, half DOS, half BSD. To boot the drive with BSD, I enter the 1542's BIOS, and tell it to ingore SCSI 0 in the startup device scan. Perhaps this isn't a nice thing to do? 2. I have a gremlin in my computer. --Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message