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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Subject: Re: Panic: Can't mount root Message-ID: <1993Mar25.205218.13184@coe.montana.edu> Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: CS References: <1993Mar25.180338.1249@coe.montana.edu> <C4GLr8.L70@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 20:52:18 GMT Lines: 24 In article <C4GLr8.L70@ns1.nodak.edu> tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) writes: > >In article <1993Mar25.180338.1249@coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes: >>The dist floppy boots fine, loads the OS, then says reboot. I hit reboot, >>it comes up, makes it just past probing for devices, and then >>Panic's with a "Can't mount root". > >check the what the BIOS thinks is the type of floppy drive. If you are booting >off a 3.5" drive and the BIOS thinks the drive is a 5.25", you will get this >"can't mount root" error. > >--mark. No, I'm booting off the hard disk, I'm past the floppy install stage. I've been told it might have something to do with cylinder boundary problems. I'm not sure which to use, the BIOS's idea or the real drive geometry that Julians drivers kick out... -- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu