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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews2.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!raindrop!unger From: unger@raindrop.seaslug.org (Thomas Unger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PANIC:Cannot mount root Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 16:14:41 GMT Organization: Wet Weather Consulting Lines: 20 Message-ID: <DqzrsI.5ps.0.raindrop.seaslug.org@raindrop.seaslug.org> References: <318AE226.2E72@ibm.net> <318CCE46.4674@neosoft.com> <4mih7a$sb9@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs115-6.u.washington.edu In article <4mih7a$sb9@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >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? I had a similar problem when I first installed (and every time I boot a new kernel). The problem was that the kernel was looking for the SCSI driver at the wrong port (x330 or something). The solution was to figure out just where the scsi driver was (Buslogic has a config utillity that I can escape into during boot) then boot the system with the -c option to configure the devices. Tom Unger