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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
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From: amichail@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Amir Michail)
Subject: can't install bsd - more info
Message-ID: <C9AEu5.9GE@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1993 15:54:05 GMT
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I have not been able to install 386BSD on my system.  I use the boot
floppy and type install, and a 60 meg partition on my drive is formatted
and several files are copied over.  At this point, the system boots
from the hard disk, and the OS is started up.

On start up, I get the following error and the system reboots again:

cannot find label ( no disk label )
panic:  cannot mount root
vm_fault ...

I have a Maxtor 7120 AT hard disk, with DOS-6 on my primary partition.
The drive is IDE, and the system bus is ISA.  

Does anyone know what may be going wrong here?

Amir