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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!spring.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!news From: kingery@cs.uiowa.edu (Larry Kingery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: cannot mount root Date: 09 Sep 1996 18:38:26 -0500 Organization: The University of Iowa Lines: 39 Sender: kingery@bolivar.cs.uiowa.edu Message-ID: <k0zloejmf7x.fsf@bolivar.cs.uiowa.edu> Reply-To: kingery@cs.uiowa.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: bolivar.cs.uiowa.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 I recently installed FreeBSD-2.1.5 on the first partition of my second IDE drive, with the 'standard' boot manager option. I plan to boot from lilo (the linux boot loader). Unfortunately, when I boot I only get to the mounting of the root filesystem, where I get the 'panic: unable to mount root' message. I read here that this can be a problem with disklabel, and to check the configuration info (which I did, it is correct). One thing I've noticed which seems to correspond to another suggestion I've seen is that every time I run the install disk, I have to reenter 2 valuable pieces of info: I have to make the root partition bootable, and I have to set it to mount and enter the mountpoint (/). This leads me to believe that this info is not being written to disk, which would be a pretty good reason for not being able to mount the root. I read through man disklabel which leads me to /etc/disktab, which doesn't contain an entry for my drive(s). Not surprising, since the install utility informs me that commit finished with errors and so /etc files were not updated. What were these "errors" you ask: beats me. The only thing that pops up is a message 'informing' me that I didn't install anything and that I don't have a /usr partition. I flip through vpty1 and there is nothing that resembles an error message. Can anyone provide a bit of assistance here? Thanks, Larry -- ________________________________________________________________ Larry Kingery kingery@cs.uiowa.edu Dept of Computer Science http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~kingery University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA Dole/Kemp '96 ----------------------------------------------------------------