From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Mar 6 00:26:23 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA26090 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 00:26:23 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA26083 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 00:26:05 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA02599; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 09:21:46 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id JAA15703; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 09:21:26 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA04751; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 09:21:02 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503060821.JAA04751@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation - Not To: MarloweN@aol.com Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 09:21:01 +0100 (MET) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org, XKY41771@genie.geis.com In-Reply-To: <950306013709_40511236@aol.com> from "MarloweN@aol.com" at Mar 6, 95 01:37:10 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 634 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As MarloweN@aol.com wrote: > Panic: Cannot mount > root Can you please describe what is happening _above_ the panic message? Which system version did you use? For version 2.0-RELEASE, the floppy disk driver had a bug that caused exactly your symptoms for (at least) any machine that has a NEC 72065B (or compatible) FDC chip. You will find something like fd0: hard error reading ... in the messages above the panic. This is fixed in newer versions, e.g. the 2.0-950210-SNAP. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)