Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 12:19:57 -0500 From: "Michael J. Streeter" <mike2609@aiusa.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Cannot Mount Root -- 3.1 Release Message-ID: <36E0123D.DCFB558C@aiusa.com>
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I just installed 3.1 on my machine, and I'm getting the infamous "error 6: panic cannot mount root (2)" message. I had the same sort of problem when running 2.2.7, but I was able to get to the boot prompt and enter 0:wd(2,a)kernel and get into the system. However, I am not getting a boot prompt on 3.1, and instead when the machine is booting it says "press a key for the command prompt" which comes up immediately after the bootstrap loader. I've tried several different commands within this command prompt, but none are resolving the issue. Any help would be appreciated! Mike Here is the info on the system: EIDE CD-ROM (wdc0), EIDE Quantum Fireball HD ( wdc1: unit 0 (wd2) ) disk1: BIOS Drive C disk1s1a FFS 32MB disk1s1b SWAP 69MB disk1s1e FFS 30MB disk1s1f FFS 2113MB Error: changed root device to wd0s1a changed root device to wd0a error 6: panic cannot mount root (2) press a key to reboot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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