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From: jegan@shipway.u-net.com (James Egan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install Problem
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 15:05:25 GMT
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On 8 Jul 1997 08:28:35 GMT, "Jeff Serafini" <jserafini@citylinq.com>
wrote:

>
>PANIC: CANNOT MOUNT ROOT
>SYNCING DISKS.......DONE
>
>And then it give me 15secs until reboot. What is causing this and how do I
>fix it?
>Please email me directly if possible....jserafini@citylinq.com
>

I would guess the disk is described in your cmos setup as LBA mode ie.
64 heads instead of 16.

I'm no FreeBSD expert but I think you need the disk to be in normal
(CHS) mode and the FreeBSD boot sector to be before the 1024th
cylinder.

This will create a problem if you have a large sized hard disk
partitioned between FreeBSD and DOS. The DOS bit in these
circumstances can only be a maximum of 500Mb at the front of the disk.

I would be happy to stand corrected if someone knows otherwise.


Jim.
(Also a beginner)