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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!OzEmail!OzEmail-In!news From: pchivers@ozemail.com.au (Paul Chivers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: panic: cannot mount root Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 23:53:38 GMT Organization: OzEmail Pty Ltd - Australia Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4vtgsh$khv@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.7.179.27 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 from Walnut Creek's January 1996 CD-ROM. I'm a newbie. I've got Win95 on a 1.2G Quantum HD and am trying to install FreeBSD onto a second 1.7G Quantum HD. I'm installing to a 800M FreeBSD partition. The whole install process proceeds without error until it comes time to reboot. (I had trouble even getting BootEasy installed and had to do it post-install manually. We're fine now though). The PC resets and starts to boot FreeBSD. It goes through the entire device probe sequence OK. But at the end it displays: changing root device to wd1a panic: cannot mount root and then gives me the "option" of rebooting. There's no choice, of course. I've tried installing with different drive geometries without success. I've even tried placing a 20M DOS partition on the 1.7G HD before the 800M FreeBSD partition. No go. Any ideas? Paul pchivers@ozemail.com.au