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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!darwin.sura.net!news.er.usgs.gov!mcmcnews.cr.usgs.gov!news.cs.indiana.edu!lynx.unm.edu!pegasus.unm.edu!not-for-mail From: bmalecki@unm.edu (boguslaw stanislaw malecki) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: freebsd installation woe Date: 14 Feb 1996 15:05:42 -0700 Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4ftmbm$5vno@pegasus.unm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pegasus.unm.edu Hello. Several days ago I installed without a hitch the latest version of freebsd (off of DOS) unto a second IDE hard drive. However, now I cannot boot up. I am getting a panic error saying, verbatum I believe, "can't mount partition root" when I boot up using the hard disk based kernel. Using the "troubleshooting" diskette I can look around and see all the config. files and all looks fine. This major problem, I suspect, is caused by the way I have partitioned that second drive. That being that the first disk partition is a DOS (primary) partition and the subsequent ones are UNIX ones. Would someone please confirm or deny that this is almost if not *the* cause of my problem? And if it is, would that same person -- if he or she knows -- please share with me why that is so. Thank you very much. Gratefully, Boguslaw