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Date:      Fri, 11 Oct 1996 13:40:01 -0400
From:      "Michael P. Deslippe" <tensbum@ix.netcom.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Subject:   Next Problem
Message-ID:  <3.0b35.32.19961011133957.00b5cd78@ix.netcom.com>

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Well, in the continuing saga of my first Unix/FreeBSD setup, I found the
problem with 
	invalid argument (22)

It turns out that to load from a DOS partition, it must be a PRIMARY DOS
partition.  Extended DOS Partitions won't mount.  

Now I have everything loaded and got the congratulations (spelled
congradulations on the screen) window.  I answered, said and did what I
needed to do to get through the post-install prompts, not really adding
anything.  I added a boot manager, because the default one wouldn't come
up.  Running bootinst from the tools directory gave me a working ability to
boot off the second drive.

Now it loads all the way to the end, then says 

panic:  can't mount root
	rebooting in 15 seconds

and I get an endless loop of reboots.

ALT-F2 doesn't appear to work here, and neither does scroll lock, so I
can't see what's wrong.  Disk one boots up Windows 95 just fine (evidenced
by the fact I'm writing this).

How should I proceed (help PuhLeease!  I'm running out of hair to putt out
:->)


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