Subject: panic: Can't mount root
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Peter William De Bonte <pwd@WPI.EDU>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/06/1996 09:45:52
Hi.

I recently installed 1.1 from my external Bernoulli 90M MacTransportable
drive to an internal SC40 (Apple label, but manufactured by Conner)
and am using the 95-Nov-22 GENERIC kernel from root@wormhole:/disk2...

My problem is when I boot without the Bernoulli connected (it's kinda
noisy so I like to do this when I'm not using it) I get several
Error 91s on 1280 after the "switching root to sd0a" and then
after five or so of these with a "using memory remaping for systems
that access memory directly" (or something like that--I have a IIcx)
I get a "panic: Can't mount root"

This is really strange because:
a) It works fine with the Bernoulli connected but "offline" as sd1
b) the 94-Oct-27 GENERIC kernel v1.0 from root@kitten.home.net:/usr...
  boots up fine w/o the Bernoulli connected (I grabbed both these
  kernels this weekend from netbsd.org).
c) I'm loading the 1.1 kernel off the root partition already when
  I get the "Can't mount root" message.

Is it perhaps trying to mount a root partition on my bernoulli?  why?
Do I need to reconfigure before starting w/o sd1 attached?  Why is 
this nescisary in v1.1 but not v1.0?  Is this a bug or user stupidity?

Thanks ;)
-Pete
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Peter W. De Bonte			pwd@kirchoff.wpi.edu
Electrical Engineering & Music Major	http://www.wpi.edu/~pwd
[Make a living & Have a life]		Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA