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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!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!207.241.0.194!news.wwa.com!news.ucdavis.edu!relay.nuxi.com!obrien From: David E. O'Brien <obrien@relay.nuxi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PANIC Can not mount root Date: 27 May 1997 06:40:30 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5mdvku$6qr$6@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <3375F494.79DA@cannet.com> <3379cdd5.228534@ionews.ionet.net> <5m9eu5$ic2@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: nuxi.ucdavis.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41663 J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: > grizzly@ionet.net (Jay) wrote: > > >I have just installed Free BSD V2.2.1. I am running Win95 on my primary > > >drive. When I boot to the secondary drive with bootmgr BSD runs through > > >the devices then I get a Panic error "Can not mount root". What am I > > >doing wrong? > 1:wd(2,a)/kernel (probably, see below) Hack /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/Makefile to make this the default. Then ``make ; make install''. Then install the new boot blocks using disklabel. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)