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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!cs.umd.edu!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!usenet From: parise@gelato.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ron Parise) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: HELP: BSDnet Sun 3/50 Install Date: 29 Apr 1996 19:53:26 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4m36nm$mb8@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: astrolap.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 I am trying to install bsdnet on a Sun 3/50. It has 4 MB of memory, a 150MB scsi tape, and a 630MB scsi disk. I made the boot and install tapes according to the install notes. I can boot the little ramdisk system from the tape. I followed the steps to partition the disk and then wrote the miniroot system to the swap partition. Everything goes along just like the install notes say until I try to boot from the swap partition. When I issue the >b sd(0,0,1) -s command from the monitor the miniroot kernel loads and executes and everything is fine until it tries to mount root and I get the following message: PANIC: Can't mount root. Then I am dumped into the debugger and I haven't a clue as to what to do about it. Anybody know how to fix this??? Ron Parise parise@gelato.gsfc.nasa.gov