Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 08:40:30 -0700 From: Anthony Monroe <tmonroe@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: [2.1.5-R] What causes... Message-ID: <199608201540.IAA07311@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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I was happily installing 2.1.5-RELEASE last night from CD to my new SCSI disk. After all the copying was done, and I rebooted the system, I could convince it to load the kernel, but I was greeted by this discouraging message: panic: cannot mount root (Or some version of it...) I guess I could reinstall things to my heart's content, and some correct partitioning of the disk might cause it to go away. (But I don't know, so I'm asking.) My main question is what causes this kind of panic -- what prevents the kernel from mounting / properly? Improper partitioning? Last time that happened, i just had a bunch of data disappear. No panics or anything. (Do you need hardware information from me?) Thanks for your help! -- Tony Monroe, in a nice white wine sauce with couscous tmonroe@csua.berkeley.edu ObURL: http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~tmonroe Chief Squid, Tony's SquidWarez Incorporated / CSUA Secretary, Fall 1996 Proprietor of Dingbat Wizwarp's Transmutation Tavern and Alteration Apothecary
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