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Date:      Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:01:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Joseph M. Scott" <jmscott@ainet.com>
To:        Gil <gseward@jps.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Another similar first install
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.981016150040.23895A-100000@shell>
In-Reply-To: <199810161758.KAA26040@smtp2.jps.net>

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	I believe the line you are looking for is :
	0:wd(0,a)/kernel.GENERIC

Joseph Scott
jmscott@ainet.com

On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Gil wrote:

> I am having a problem similar to Bill Hamilton's.  I have a Pentium 
> 166 on an Abit MB, 64MB ram , two FAT32 IDE drives on the first 
> IDE port and another IDE drive dedicated to FreeBSD (master) and 
> a CDROM on the second IDE port. My BIOS lets me choose my 
> boot drive and I have it set to E:.  I installed FreeBSD, and the user 
> configuration showed no conflicts except for my Ps/2 mouse, 
> which configuration said was allowed.  When I try to boot it I get a 
> message "Panic: cannot mount root".  When, at the Boot: prompt, 
> I enter:  0:wd(0,a)? I get a result like this:
> 
> . .. dev usr var stand etc proc cdrom dist bin lkm mnt root sbin tmp 
> sys boot.hlp.cshrc .profile COPYRIGHT kernel.GENERIC 
> kernel.config boot.config home
> 
> I have tried "0:wd(0,a)GENERIC kernel" and "0:wd(0,a)compat 
> kernel", and both run, but both also give me the "Panic: cannot 
> mount root" error.
> Can anyone help a Newbie?
> 
>              Gil Seward
> 
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