From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 08:40:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA06391 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 08:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA06372 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 08:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (tmonroe@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA07311 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 08:40:46 -0700 Message-Id: <199608201540.IAA07311@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: [2.1.5-R] What causes... X-Mailer: mh-e 5.0.1 / MH 6.8.3 #20[UCI] Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 08:40:30 -0700 From: Anthony Monroe Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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