From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 16 19:57:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA22170 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 19:57:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ips.multiwave.com.sg (ips.multiwave.com.sg [203.120.211.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA22165 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 19:57:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gwzhao@multiwave.com.sg) Received: from GWZHAO ([203.120.211.223]) by ips.multiwave.com.sg (Netscape Mail Server v2.0) with SMTP id AAA182 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 10:57:02 +0800 Received: by GWZHAO with Microsoft Mail id <01BD99DE.C7F93770@GWZHAO>; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 10:57:55 +0800 Message-ID: <01BD99DE.C7F93770@GWZHAO> From: gwzhao@multiwave.com.sg (Gorton Zhao Guo Wei) To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Help: installing problem with Free BSD 2.2.6 Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 10:57:53 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I just bought a Free BSD CDs (4 pieces of CD-ROM). The title of those CDs is "Free BSD 2.2.6, A full 4.4 BSD Lite Based 32 bit Operating system' from Walnut Greek CDROM. My system is Pentium PC with 32MB ram + a PCI network card + PCI VGA card. In the same system, I have tried to install Linux, QNX, and Windows NT/98/95 as well successfully, but I could not install Free BSD successfully on that PC. I tried to install Free BSD on a new harddisk without having any operating system on it, and with a dos partition on the harddisk. The problem appears at the same. I followed the installation instructions to install Free BSD from a IDE CD-ROM drive. Everything seemed to be okay during installation, but after re-boot the machine, the error message 'panic: cannot mount root' came out and the system kept rebooting every 15 seconds. I would appreciate any help on this. I also found that there were no source codes at /usr/src/sys directory under disc #2. I think that it should be there because this disc is included all uncompressed files. Not sure if there are anything wrong with the CDs. Thanks. Regards, Gorton Zhao Multiwave Innovation Pte Ltd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message