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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: Cannot Moutn Root?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.UW2.3.95.970614131848.3678C-100000@cedb> from Dan Busarow at "Jun 14, 97 01:20:58 pm"
To: dan@dpcsys.com (Dan Busarow)
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 00:44:26 +0200 (MET DST)
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> On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Mark wrote:
> > When I boot and choose drive 2, everything looks
> > like it is loading, but then I get a Panic error.
> > The error is "Cannot Mount Root"
> 
> At the boot prompt, try entering
> 
> wd(1,a)/kernel

or better yet

1:wd(2,a)/kernel
     ^
because the root partition is on the master disk of the second
IDE controller, and wd(1,a) is on the slave disk of the first
IDE controller, which you don't have.

> 
> Dan
> -- 
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