From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 20 15:46:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA02595 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 15:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from handlin.pet.ac.il (guya@handlin.pet.ac.il [194.90.32.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA02590 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 15:46:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (guya@localhost) by handlin.pet.ac.il (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA02852 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 01:48:10 +0300 X-Authentication-Warning: handlin.pet.ac.il: guya owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 01:48:10 +0300 (IDT) From: Guy Avraham X-Sender: guya@handlin.pet.ac.il To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: problems. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 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.