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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Failure to boot after installation Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 18:10:56 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 14 Message-ID: <31632FB0.3F54BC7E@FreeBSD.org> References: <1996Mar26.200625.21968@roper.uwyo.edu> <31594C2F.15FB7483@FreeBSD.org> <315C0E7E.398@myp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Dean Roth <dean@myp.com> Dean Roth wrote: > I modified my Linux boot diskette to have an option to boot FreeBSD. > The FreeBSD kernel loads, then reports this error: > > 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). -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project