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Date:      Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:04:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        mintons@dialogic.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HALP!!!!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808171404260.26224-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199808171827.OAA01692@uranus.dialogic.com>

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On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 mintons@dialogic.com wrote:

> I am in panic mode, for one thing, that is what FreeBSD advised me to do:
> panic:  can't mount root
> 
> I have a pentium 166 64mb RAM, 1 SCSI CDROM, and hard drives as follow
> 
> Primary master = 2.5GB IDE DOS/Windoze  wd0
> Primary slave  = 6.5GB IDE DOS  wd1

> Secondary Master = IDE CDROM
> Secondary slave =  4.5GB IDE FreeBSD wd3

Reverse these two then try it.  It's not wd3, it's wd4 in that position.

I'm surprised you can even boot it.

> I installed BSD giving it the whole disk, leaving the first partition
> open for another OS, not "dangerously dedicated".  The fstab points to
> wd3s1a, b, e, f as /, swap, /var, and /usr.  I am using OSBS and it
> starts the booting from wd3, I suppose, since there is no other place
> that BSD resides that I can see.  Just before the panic message it
> says that it is switching root to wd2s1a.  There ain't no such
> critter.  Please help!  Could you cc to dukonalake@aol.com Oh, I am
> installing from the Walnut Creek CDROM 4 disk set.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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