Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 01:48:10 +0300 (IDT) From: Guy Avraham <guya@netvision.net.il> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: problems. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970521013438.2592A-100000@handlin.pet.ac.il>
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hello i had been trying to install the freebsd 2.1.0 and i an facing some annoying fenomina. i chose the novice installation, followed all the help guieds and finally got 'you have successfu......press <enter> to reboot' i thought it was the end of the installation, but when rebooting the kernel loads up and i get a msg. saing "panic: canot mount root .!" "system will reboot in ..." well i tryd repartitioning the disk and reinstalling from scratch...but got the same old msg. again. well .... what should i do ?? i am almost ready to give up and install red-hat linux... my machine is : 1. intel p-100-s. 2. tryton III mother-board. 3. 16 MB of EDO ram memory. 4. SCSI (IDE based) supported cd-r. 5. HDD : 1. 850 IDE primary master. 2. 120 IDE primary slave. 3. 730 IDE secondary master. the HDD with i am tring to install upon is a 730 MB in size and it is all dedicated to the FreeBSD system. (does not have any DOS partition). if you need any more setales pls. let me know and i will be more that happy to give it to you. pls. tell me what to do, since i had waisted a full night and a lot of internet hours searching the FAQ with no success. thanks a lot. Madg.
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