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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: panic: Nobody wants to mount my root
Date: 27 May 1996 02:36:04 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <4oaiaj$3ac@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>Phill Glasson <pglasson@albury.net.au> wrote:
>
>> I get the error as the final phase of kernel load happens.
>> 
>> panic: Nobody wants to mount my root.
>
>What a prosaic system. ;-)

Using etags, I found a couple of others to add to the list:-

"ext2_balloc: something is terribly wrong"
"panic for historical reasons"

(or should that be hysterical reasons? 8-)

>Is this a customized kernel?  The only reason i could figure out by
>looking at the code is that you've excluded all file system types that
>are potential root file systems.

Same here. (This is in the configure() function in
/usr/src/sys/i386/i386/autoconf.c, BTW).

The following couple of lines from the LINT config file should show
how to fix this:-

# One of these is mandatory:
options         FFS                     #Fast filesystem
options         NFS                     #Network File System

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
jraynard@dial.pipex.com
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk