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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!cdc2.cdc.net!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.nwnet.net!news-hub.interserv.net!news.sprynet.com!news From: Dave Blizzard <dblizzar@sprynet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: panic: can't mount root again!!! Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 22:30:26 -0500 Organization: Sprynet News Service Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3223BD46.3E17@sprynet.com> Reply-To: dblizzar@sprynet.com NNTP-Posting-Host: dd15-033.compuserve.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) After more than a month of seeming stability, my freebsd 2.1.0 once again cannot mount root during the boot process. The boot process seems to go normally until the transfer to sd0 root and then the panic occurs. I have bsd installed on a 1gb SCSI drive with no other OS. I don't use the boot manager as I already got burned on that one. Using the fixit floppy I can mount sd0 (on /mnt) and see all the files in / (the original / on sd0) but I can't make fsck work. After the last time this happened I have even saved a copy of a valid fstab on the fixit floppy but when I run fsck it says that /dev/rsd0a is invalid and then says it can't cat the other files mentioned in the fstab. This problem is a real problem for me as this OS seems to be so unstable that I cannot trust it for real work. The only thing that has happened (I think) is that I accidentally booted from a floppy instead of entering boot: sd(1,a)/kernel. Where can I learn what to do with the fixit floppy? How do I attempt to salvage the drive when the one utility can't access it? Why doesn't the boot process properly fix these problems as it is supposed to? Please, someone , recommend a book or procedure that can at least collect some info on what is happening to my drive. -- de Dave Blizzard VE3 SVL ----------------