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Subject: kern/4068: 'panic: cant mount root' while booting new installation from disk 2.
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>Number:         4068
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       'panic: cant mount root' while booting new installation from disk 2.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jul  9 09:00:01 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Peter Clark
>Organization:
Phillips Petroleum
>Release:        2.2.2
>Environment:
System doesn't get that far!
>Description:
Novice installation: generating kernel on 2-disk machine with only /bin
installation. Disk 1 is Windows 95, disk 2 is 'dedicated' to FreeBSD with
'compatibility' partition, default FreeBSD partitions and sizes. Disks are
EIDE mode 4 on PCI bus. /bin and kernel configuration goes ok, and boot
manager chooses correct disk and boot process starts, but after 'changing
to device wd1a' message I get 'panic: cant mount root'. Is it possible to
boot from 'D' drive or only from 'C'? I want to leave my disk 1 untouched 
as far as possible. Do I need more than just the /bin for a minimal 
installation, which I can add to later?
>How-To-Repeat:
Repeatable on my system. Create kernel on disk 2, with boot manager on both
disk 1 and disk 2, select 'disk2' when asked by boot manager.
>Fix:

>Audit-Trail:
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