On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:46:59PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> [...]
> I entered "wd0a". And that failed too:
> 
> file system (default generic): **I pressed enter**
> boot device: wd0
> root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
> root file system type: ext2fs
> warning: lookup /dev/console: error 20
> exec /sbin/init: error 20
> exec /sbin/oinit: error 20
> exec /sbin/init.bak: error 20
> init path:
> 
> I have no idea where this "ext2fs" came from. I see other postings with 
> similar issues.
> 
> So I rebooted again.
> 
> And chose "ffs" as my filesystem type.
> 
> That failed with:
> 
> root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
> cannot mount root, error = 22
> root device (default wd0a):

I'd guess you have a partition table issue, and wd0a became a linux partition.
Try booting an INSTALL kernel from network, you have fdisk and disklabel
to see what's going on.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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