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Organization: Doctoral student, Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!sc0o+ Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Message-ID: <0eoTIK200WB2JLJ0sk@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:20:38 -0400 From: Sebastian Ceria <sc0o+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: Installing 386BSD - Help! Lines: 31 I have the following configuration: Compudyne 486-33 Mhz 8 MB of Ram 203 MB Maxtor IDE drive 2 Serial and 1 parallel port 1 1.2 MB Floppy 1 1.44 MB Floppy The disk has 3 partitions 1 40MB Main DOS 1 20MB Extended DOS 1 140MB 386BSD I first loaded the tiny BSD from the floppy and it works. Then I ran "install" and it succesfully completed installation on the hard disk. The problem is that the machine can not then boot up from the hard drive. The error is: "cannot find label; panic: cannot mount root", then the machine reboots itself again and again. I went to the list of FAQ and found that question 2.10 is very similar to my problem. So I tried to use the dist.fs from unofficial/newbootables.cgd but that did not work either (that is I booted again from the floppy and rerun the "install" program, and then tried to boot from the hard drive) Any suggestions? Sebastian sc0o@andrew.cmu.edu