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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:16:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Shannon 8 <asteiner@KNOX.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Getting it to run
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On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Shannon 8 wrote:

>     Small question.  I seem to get through the installation and
> everything fine, however, when I get to booting up for the first time,
> it does its little thing for a while and eventually ends up panicking.
> The error message seems to be cannot mount root.  It then proceeds to
> wait for 15 seconds and reboots.  I think it would do this for a long
> time if I let it.  Any advise?  Thanks

 If you get the message:
panic: Cannot mount root

At the end of the probe sequence you should either:
1. Have the line:
config kernel root on wd2

in your kernel config,
OR:

2. Rename the second disk to wd1 in the kernel config (comment out the 
original wd1 line and change the wd2 line to read wd1, leaving all other 
parameters unchanged).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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