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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!cliffs.rs.itd.umich.edu!agate!usenet From: Hugh T Ha <hughth@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Boot Problem Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 17:23:33 -0800 Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 10 Message-ID: <331F6E15.6AF3@uclink4.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hughth.hip.berkeley.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36686 I noticed that BSD says I have 3000 or so cylinders and 16 heads when my BIOS is set to 524 and 64. I'm guessing this is why my installation didn't work. I get this error when I boot: changing rot device to wd1a panic cannot mount root Anyone know what's wrong and how to solve this problem? Thanks.