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From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: panic: can't mount root again!!!
Date: 30 Aug 1996 00:06:33 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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References: <3223BD46.3E17@sprynet.com>
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In article <3223BD46.3E17@sprynet.com>,
Dave Blizzard  <dblizzar@sprynet.com> wrote:
>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.

You may try this at boot prompt:

	1:sd(0,a)

sd(1,a) may not exist on your system, so you get panic.


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