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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!shelby.visix.com!stevek From: stevek@visix.com (Steve Kiernan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Root mounting problem... Date: 11 Mar 1996 17:39:50 GMT Organization: Visix Software, Inc. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4i1oh6$muj@shelby.visix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gto X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I downloaded the Netscape port over the weekend onto my msdos partition, booted up FreeBSD, mounted the msdos partition and copied the netscape file(s) over to the /usr partition and installed Netscape. After starting up X and trying to run Netscape, the system hung then rebooted. Once it came back up, it couldn't switch to the root filesystem. So I booted to a fix disk and tried to mount the FreeBSD filesystem (on wd1a), but it wouldn't mount. So I ran fsck, which fixed a few problems with root not being unmounted properly (because of the self-reboot), mounted the filesystem on wd1a to /mnt without a problem and the files seemed okay, fsck checked out the system okay. I exitted out of the fix disk, rebooted, but still the kernel can't switch to the root partition on wd1a. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks, Stephen J. Kiernan stevek@visix.com kiernasj@wckn.dorm.clarkson.edu