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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.De!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: freebsd installation woe Date: 20 Feb 1996 00:50:37 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4gb5st$d34@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ftmbm$5vno@pegasus.unm.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 bmalecki@unm.edu (boguslaw stanislaw malecki) writes: > 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"... > 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? It's certainly not. What is ``second drive'' for you? The second drive on the primary IDE controller, or the first drive on the secondary? If it's the latter, this will likely cause troubles (but i don't have a quick recommend- ation handy on how to fix it -- sorry, i don't waste my money in IDE). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)