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From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT])
Subject: Re: Cannot mount root during install?
Message-ID: <1995May19.151807.22685@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 15:18:07 GMT
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Hello,

[Yes, I know. I'm years too late with this article. This University's policy
on acceptable level of service wrt Usenet goes along the 'be glad it works 
at all' line, which means a typical 7 days delay for incoming messages,
and also a few days for outgoing ones. *shrug*]

tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:

>To recap, when I try to install on the second drive, it goes well to
>the point where I'm supposed to reboot from the hard disk (e.g., it
>makes the file system, mounts it, copies the stuff from the first
>floppy over, and tells me to reboot).  When I get the boot prompt,
>I tell it hd(1,a)/kernel (I'm reporting from memory here, so I may
>not have the syntax exactly right).  The kernel loads from the hard
>disk, initializes all my devices, and appears to be real happy.  Until
>it gets to the point where it is to mount root.  It then panics, saying
>that it cannot mount root.

Ok. This should apply only if you have 1 IDE and one SCSI drive.
If you have two scsi drives, boot sd(1,a)/kernel, with two 
IDEs try wd(1,a)/kernel.

The SCSI version works fine here with 2.0R . You can also change 
the bootblock to default the way you need it, tell me if you need details.

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr

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  Christoph Weber-Fahr                  |  E-Mail:  weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de 
  Universitaet Kaiserslautern,  KIT     |  S-Mail:  Postfach 3049
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