From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 14 17:59:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.austin.rr.com (sm1.texas.rr.com [24.93.35.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ABC4150B1 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 17:59:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rluedtke@freewwweb.com) Received: from [24.93.61.97] ([24.93.61.97]) by mail.austin.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1875.185.18); Sat, 14 Aug 1999 19:59:18 -0500 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 4.5 (0410) Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 19:59:36 -0500 Subject: panic: cannot mount root From: "Robert M. Luedtke" To: freeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="MS_Mac_OE_3017505576_2290322_MIME_Part" Message-ID: <09b021859000f89SM1@mail.austin.rr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > THIS MESSAGE IS IN MIME FORMAT. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --MS_Mac_OE_3017505576_2290322_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hello all, I have installed 2.2.8 on two different machines and have ended up with the same problem. I used V Communications Partition Commander to partition my hard disk. I have Win98 installed on the first partition. I installed 2.2.8 on the second partition on one machine and on the third partition on another machine. I tried using System Commander as the boot manager. I also tried using dos fdisk to switch between the active partitions to choose which one to boot (thus not using any boot management software.) I also tried using booteasy. I installed from CDROM and from an MS-DOS directory. The problem that keeps happening is after I install, I can boot FreeBSD okay maybe one, two, or three times, but then I get the following error at the end of a boot sequence: wd0: cannot find label (I/O error) wd0s3: cannot find label (I/O error) panic: cannot mount root syncing disks... done Automatic reboot in 15 seconds. I have gotten Linux and BeOS to run okay on the second or third partition and have been able to boot them numerous times. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as I really like FreeBSD from a philosophical view. Thanks, Robert --MS_Mac_OE_3017505576_2290322_MIME_Part Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable panic: cannot mount root Hello all,
I have installed 2.2.8 on two different machines and have ended up with the=
same problem.  I used V Communications Partition Commander to partitio= n my
hard disk.  I have Win98 installed on the first partition.  I ins= talled
2.2.8 on the second partition on one machine and on the third partition on<= BR> another machine.  I tried using System Commander as the boot manager. =  I
also tried using dos fdisk to switch between the active partitions to choos= e
which one to boot (thus not using any boot management software.)  I al= so
tried using booteasy.  I installed from CDROM and from an MS-DOS direc= tory.
The problem that keeps happening is after I install, I can boot FreeBSD oka= y
maybe one, two, or three times, but then I get the following error at the end of a boot sequence:

wd0: cannot find label (I/O error)
wd0s3: cannot find label (I/O error)
panic: cannot mount root

syncing disks... done
Automatic reboot in 15 seconds.

I have gotten Linux and BeOS to run okay on the second or third partition and have been able to boot them numerous times.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as I really like FreeBSD from a=
philosophical view.
Thanks,
Robert --MS_Mac_OE_3017505576_2290322_MIME_Part-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message