Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 00:27:25 -0500 (EST) From: alam <alam@shadow.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: alam@shadow.net Subject: PANIC: cannot mount root Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.961128000316.24936A-100000@hyper>
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Hello. Near the end of boot, freebsd 2.1.5 displays the message "changing root device to sd2a" "panic: cannot mount root" This is a new install onto my only scsi hard disk although the system has 2 other disks (ide with win95,linux partions and an older freebsd release). I am booting the FreeBSD 2.1.5 through linux's lilo. It seems to detect my hardware ok but when it tries to mount root, the above error occurs. The only cards in the machine are an adaptec2940 PCI scsi controller and a trident PCI video card. The motherboards ide controllers are enabled since I boot (and run lilo) on my c: drive which is IDE. Can anyone help? Art
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