Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 10:00:31 PST From: "Cosmic 665" <the_hermit665@hotmail.com> To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot problems Message-ID: <20000306180031.79471.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Did you try the "boot -s" string?? if your able to get to a prompt the take a look at you fstab file (vi /etc/fstab). You may have left out your "/" partition... :P -Cosmic-665 >Here's the story. I thought I could get through an initial install. I'm >putting FreeBSD on a "dummy" machine (Pentium 66 16mb 1gb) to test some >things. Any three of the installs goes through fine. I try to boot and it >gives me something like this; > >ERROR: Panic: Cannot mount root (6) > >Syncing disks... done > >And then it forces a reboot. It keeps on doing this. The hard drive seems >fine and I cleared the kernel of anything that wasn't physically there. > >Someone help... any suggestions? Reinstall? With what >options/configurations? > >Thanks in advance, > > >Ryan M. Gamo >Southern California Edison >Information Technology >IT Application Services - TDBU >PAX: 51234 * GamoRM >"KNOW YOUR ROLE" > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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