Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 09:23:15 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Guy Avraham <guya@netvision.net.il> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems. Message-ID: <338294D3.1278@barcode.co.il> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970521013438.2592A-100000@handlin.pet.ac.il>
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Guy Avraham wrote: > > 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. 2.1.0 is ancient, and I think this trick won't work on it. Had you installed 2.1.5 or later the solution would have been to give 1:wd(2,a)/kernel at the Boot: prompt. You can try this, but I think it won't work on 2.1.0. The best thing would be (IMHO) to install a newer version. If that's impossible, reinstall and put the root partition (which can be pretty small - ~30MB is more than enough) on the first hard disk. Nadav
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