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Subject: Re: freebsd question
To: Kent Fletcher <kent_fletcher@pobox.tbe.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 00:13:46 +0000 ()
Cc: questions@freebsd.org, thankhuu@cco.caltech.edu
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Hope you don't mind, but I've Cc'd this to the list as I'm not sure
what else to suggest that I haven't suggested before, and that didn't
seem to solve the problem :-(

> I came across some interchange between you guys (Thanh Khuu & James Raynard)
> in a news group, "muc.lists.freebsd.questions" regarding a problem of not
> being able to mount root.  By the way, I can read newsgroups but I can't post
> so I have to send an e-mail.  Anyway, I have a similar configuration as Thanh
> Khuu, i.e.,
> 
> primary ide (master): 1.6G (Win 95)
> primary ide (slave):  8x CDROM (Ocean Tecknologies)
> seconary (master): 1.6G (Freebsd 2.1)
> secondary(slave):  4x CDROM (Mitsumi)
> 
> Thanh Khuu wrote that the system paniced, "Cannot mount root".   He tried
> booting from floppy and at Boot: prompt entered "wd(2,a)", his second drive,

Shouldn't that be wd(1,a)?

> which was one of your suggestions, (James R.), but did not work according to
> Thanh Khuu.  I am having the same problem.  I originally had freebsd and win95
> on one hard disk, and that seemed to work fine.  The catch is I had to make my
> win95 partition only 300 meg.  I needed more space so I got the extra 1.6 G
> drive exclusively for freebsd.  Anyway, I believe the system is originally
> searching wd(2,a), it freaks out, then says "switching to wd1a" (I think) then
> "panic: cannot mount root".  Were you guy's ever able to resolve this problem.
>  It would be greatly appreciated if I could get some advice.