Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 17:00:41 -0400 From: Dave Blizzard <blizzard@canoe.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Panic cannot mount root Message-ID: <31CB0D79.680D@canoe.ca>
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Thanks for reading this message, you must get hundreds but... my BSD has broken once again and I need some help to resurrect the file system. Some background: FreeBSD v2, 486 PC 33 mhz, Adaptec 1520/1522 SCSI Adapter, Quantum 1080s 1042mb drive as drive 1 (drive 0 is an IDE drive exclusively Dos). I boot from a floppy and then boot the SCSI drive. OK. For the third time now my system panics on boot and can't mount root. Using the fixit floppy, I have run "fsck -p /dev/rsd0" and the filesystem checks out with no errors. I have also run fsck with the -f option and no difference is seen. The partition information seems ok if I look at using the install procedure. I then reboot using the recommended "reboot -n". After the fsck, I can "mount /dev/sd0 /" but the contents seem to be only the floppy. Where am I going wrong? I suspect one of my kids may have started the system accidentally from a floppy and then halted the system but I can't see how that should destroy the SCSI drive. My only recourse the first two times was to start from scratch but after 3 weeks of successful install ... (I even got PPP and sendmail to work). >From Tearing my hair out in Toronto Dave Blizzard blizzard@canoe.ca
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