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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.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: Failure to boot after installation Date: 4 Apr 1996 21:23:13 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4k1ek1$krb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <1996Mar26.200625.21968@roper.uwyo.edu> <31594C2F.15FB7483@freebsd.org> <315C0E7E.398@myp.com> <31632FB0.3F54BC7E@freebsd.org> 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 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > changing root device to sd2a > > panic: cannot mount root > > > > And then it reboots. What's wrong? > > You need to boot sd(0,a)/kernel explicitly (the boot message alludes to > this one). This won't help very much. :-( sd(0,a) implies the BIOS disk number 0x80, but it's actually 0x82. See my other posting. -- 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. ;-)