Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:35:22 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-uk-users <freebsd-users@freebsd-uk.eu.org> Subject: Re: Help: panic: cannot mount root - Forget It! Message-ID: <36541E9A.F3CF1B7E@uk.radan.com> References: <36541055.2C06B0FF@uk.radan.com>
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Doh!. No need to reply to this one. My colleague had told me that he'd read all the "help files" which I interpreted as the Handbook & FAQ. Further conversation revealed he meant the *.txt files on CD 1. I looked in the FAQ on www.freebsd.org and found the answer. Sorry for wasting your time :-( Mark Ovens wrote: > > Can someone help with this pls. > > I gave a colleague one of the free 2.2.6 CD sets. He tried installed > it he got "panic: cannot mount root" immediately after the npx0: INT > 16 interface message. > > He has tried disconnecting all his HD's except for the one he is > putting FreeBSD on, re-installed on that disk. The install completes > successfully but on rebooting he still gets this error. He's tried > both with & without the FreeBSD boot manager but gets the same result. > > I haven't actually seen his m/c as it's a bit difficult for me to go > to his house. > > Has anyone any idea how to fix this as I've never had this problem. > > I'm concerned that we can fix this as my colleague is a Windows user > and sometime Linux user so he's not particularly impressed with > FreeBSD so far :-( > > -- > Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It > was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. > > Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. > Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions > mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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