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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