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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 1995 13:09:33 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Chris Pallone <cpallone@nancy.compusa.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Panic: Cannot mount ROOT 
Message-ID:  <199511272109.NAA00158@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Nov 95 12:23:50 CST." <199511271823.MAA12221@nancy.compusa.com> 

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>received the FreeBSD boot prompt.  Pressed enter to take the defaults
>and it took off.  I received all the normal systems polls; but when 
>the polls were complete and the system tries to start mounting the 
>filesystems I was presented the message 'Panic cannot mount root' and
>the system reboots.  
>
>I did not provide all the Hardware specifics because I do not think this
>is a hardware issue.  If anything, I missed a step or this is not a 
>possible solution.  If you need further info let me know.  And if all
>else fails, I will blow away the OS/2 boot manager and use booteasy.

   The "cannot mount root" panic usually happens when the system can't find
your disk control and/or drive with '/' on it. What kind of SCSI disk
controller are you using, and did FreeBSD find it at startup?

-DG



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