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Date:      Thu, 6 Feb 1997 16:39:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Brian A Haskin Jr." <bhaskin@juno.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Panic: cannot mount root
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970206163830.3960D-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <19970206.160332.3630.1.BHaskin@juno.com>

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On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Brian A Haskin Jr. wrote:

> After installing 2.2-GAMMA the 2-5-97  snapshot I tried to boot from the
> floppy BOOT: prompt with
> wd(1,a)/kernel.
> 
> It seemed to find the kernel okay and went through the probe then had the
> panic after a message about
> switching root to wd1a.

Boot using

wd(2,a)/kernel

or

1:wd(2,a)/kernel

To get started, then rebuild your kernel changing the 'kernel' line in the
kernel configuration point to root on wd2.  

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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