Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 01:59:42 -0500 (EST) From: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> To: Lamine Sano <sanol@acm.org> Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, support@freebsd.com Subject: Re: Root distribution Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.961228015825.19073C-100000@echonyc.com> In-Reply-To: <32C4411C.2686@acm.org>
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On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Lamine Sano wrote: > trying to do a dos install since my mitsumi cdrom is not being > recognized by freebsd v.2.1 probing. After all goes well during the > verbose messages prompting sequence, I am faced to that failure when the > system is creating the root filesystem. > That is an IDE CD-ROM, right? It is said that those work most often when configured as a slave on the primary IDE bus or, if that fails, as master on the secondary IDE bus. Where do you have it? > > > Doug White wrote: > > > > On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Lamine Sano wrote: > > > > > I get the following message after freebsd is trying to create the root > > > filesystem: > > > Failed to load the root distribution. > > > What's going on and what is the remedy ? > > > > What version of FreeBSD are you installing on? Via what method? > > Details.... > > > > Doug White | University of Oregon > > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > -- > -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > Version: 2.6.2 > > mQCNAzIDF+gAAAEEAJJawmZliZSzRwDCnz8K0RGFPINvn4dV9oYDQ/9Ti26kmF7y > oEv/vYSHviDnRw1ZYFCrSF55yohxZwjJd2KrrI20CSjv2hxJuezBS1xIJIypcpa+ > aMSVUwSnRXtSx+46pHR0O4nl2o+Hgofxr1FBdSTVfxhm2AeN+eb0nUlKAxKZAAUR > tCRMYW1pbmUgU2FubyA8THNhbm9Ad29ybGRuZXQuYXR0Lm5ldD4= > =ehiv > -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > > Ben
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