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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:46:43 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
To:        Malcolm_Boff@compuserve.com (MALCOLM BOFF)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: panic : cannot mount root
Message-ID:  <199802261746.LAA14010@horton.iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <199802261206_MC2-34C6-9407@compuserve.com> from MALCOLM BOFF at "Feb 26, 98 12:05:40 pm"

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In a previous message, MALCOLM BOFF said:
> I have been using Release 2.2.2 since it was first cut by Walnut Creek
> without any problems. However since I changed my motherboard some
> of the probes (for things I don't have !) have been taking excessive times
> during boot up.
> 
> I decided to prune these out in the kernel config to speed things up a bit
> however I am now getting the message :-
> 
> panc: can't mount root
> 
> I tried booting single user without success (I can still boot the system
> using 'sd(1,a)/kernel.old').

you probably screwed up the line that tells the kernel where root is

config          kernel  root on sd1

is probably what you want.

-- 
You don't need a quadrophonic Blaupunkt -- what you need is a curve ball!

	--from "Bill Durham"

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