From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 23 02:22:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA01044 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:22:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA00973 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:22:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA02369; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:22:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:22:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Nick Bodis cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: PANIC: cannot mount root In-Reply-To: <01BD9DE9.C010A8E0.nbodis@baytechnologygroup.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Nick Bodis wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD on a dedicated 6.1GB disk on a 266Mhz with 64MB > RAM. > > Any ideas on why during boot-up the message "Panic: cannot mount root" > appears and the system goes into an endless loop of trying to boot? Because you have a hard drive and CDROM on the primary controller and the second hard drive on it's won controller? FreeBSD has trouble dealing with this. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message