Subject: Re: Can't mount root
To: Michael Larson - ADC <mlarson@adc.cirrus.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/30/1996 17:38:57
On Tue, 30 Jan 1996 09:30:48 -0600 (CST) 
 Michael Larson - ADC <mlarson@adc.cirrus.com> wrote:

 > I have a Sun Sparc 1+ that I attempting to put NetBSD on. I have
 > been able to boot NetBSD using boot sd(0,0,0)netbsd -s and every
 > thing looks ok as it comes up (all the devices are found and such)
 > until the kernel attempts to mount the root partition. I setup
 > the root partition in fstab as /dev/sd1a and the kernel boot message
 > reports mapping scsi device 0 to sd1. But the kernel reports that
 > it is unable to mount the root partition.

What's the exact error message?

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