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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PANIC:Cannot mount root
Date: 5 May 1996 15:24:26 GMT
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John Amason <jamason@neosoft.com> wrote:

> If misery loves company, I have the exact same problem. Would some 
> please post a solution. Is it disk geometry?

No, ``hd(2,a)/kernel'' _might_ be a solution (i dunno), as i've posted
in another followup to the very same question.  (The original poster
seems to be rather impatient and posted it twice.)

There's a more generic solution found in the -current bootstraps.

-- 
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. ;-)