From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 14:26:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA21688 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:26:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from piccolo.cco.caltech.edu (thankhuu@piccolo.cco.caltech.edu [131.215.48.151]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA21680 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:26:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by piccolo.cco.caltech.edu (8.6.12/DEI:4.45) id OAA09704; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:24:37 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:24:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Thanh Khuu X-Sender: thankhuu@piccolo To: James Raynard cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: can't mount root In-Reply-To: <199607141851.SAA04016@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 14 Jul 1996, James Raynard wrote: > A simple way round this is to use the install floppy to boot from, > then type in > > wd(1,a)/kernel > > at the Boot: prompt. (The first letter is 'w' if you have 2 IDE > disks, 's' if you have 2 SCSI disks and 'h' if you have one of each). > I booted from the install floppy with the option you suggested but it still say: switching to wd1a (the wdxx might not be right, i can't remember) panic: cannot mount root