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Date:      Tue, 17 Jun 1997 01:20:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: kern/3882: panic: cannot boot from root
Message-ID:  <199706170820.BAA02359@hub.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/3882; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: wanglong@hbdcb.net.cn
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/3882: panic: cannot boot from root
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:36:38 +0200

 As wanglong@hbdcb.net.cn wrote:
 
 > my computer is pentium 166 with ABUS T2P4d motherboard and my
 > harddisk is seagate ST52520 .I installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 in it
 > good,but one day i find my first IDE controller was bad ,so i change
 > my harddisk to the second IDE controller ,but when i install freebsd
 > in it,it can not boot now ,and the message is:" panic
 > :...........can't boot from root".
 
 Grmpf.
 
 First, please limit your linelength to a reasonable value.
 
 Second, you should be as exact as possible.  ``Cannot mount root'' is
 the panic.
 
 Third, you should read docs, and failing this, please ask this to the
 proper support forums (questions@freebsd.org, or in Usenet).  There
 are a lot of people being able to answer this, and no, it's not a bug.
 Thus, it's neither critical nor deserves a high priority.
 
 (Fourth, you could do a minimal effort of examining the problem
 yourself.  Your bootmessages would show you that the disk where the
 root filesystem was expected to be on simply hasn't been found.)
 
 Finally: "0:wd(2,a)/kernel" is the boot string.  ``man nextboot'' to
 see how to make the change permanent.
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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