From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 10 19:37:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA04241 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:37:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from proxyb2-atm.san.rr.com (proxyb2-atm.san.rr.com [204.210.0.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA04223 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:36:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (dt051n19.san.rr.com [204.210.32.25]) by proxyb2.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00929; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:12:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <34B80088.A418C2BD@dal.net> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:13:12 -0800 From: Studded Organization: DALnet IRC Network X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rp2 CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem Mounting Kernal References: <199801070324.WAA22077@eagle.freespace.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Rp2 wrote: > > Hello Sir or Madame: > > I am having huge problems getting freebsd up on my system. We are > installing the OS on a system with > 2 HD 1 3.5 gig Fujitsu (used for win95) and a 1.7 Gig Segate Drive (both > IDE) used for FreeBSD (also has a 200 meg partion on it for dos stuff... > > Anyhow, the installation looks successful, however, when booting for the > first time I get a "panic: cannont mount root" message, This problem is fairly easy to fix. Go to http://www.freebsd.org/search.html, go to the mail archives section and search for panic: cannot mount root. Look for answers by Doug White. I had a very similar problem and his solution fixed me right up. :) Good luck, Doug