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From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: panic: cannot mount root
Date: 12 Feb 1996 11:00:02 GMT
Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants
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In article <4fe3d9$h87@netty.york.ac.uk>,
PI Halliday <pih100@york.ac.uk> wrote:
> the first drive. Thats ok - I always boot Linux off floppy.
> I reboot the machine using the installation boot floppy, enter the 
> partition device name, and it starts booting quite merrily, probing for 
> the various devices, then at the end, gives the 'panic' message and says 
> its going to reboot in 15 secs. Having tried this 12 times I figure its not
> just the location on the disk.

You have a conflict  between the geometry seen  by  the BIOS (boot  is done
with the  BIOS' routines) and the  geometry as written by  the installation
program. 

Check   with DOS or  Linux  which is the    "right" geometry and re-install
FreeBSD. During the partitionning stage, override the geometry. 

[[ cc'ed to Paul ]]
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