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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
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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.