Did you make a ffs or cd9660 filesystem on the CD? If the latter
	you should try to mount it as cd9660 :)

		David/absolute

	 -=3D-  "There will not be a send-off, a funeral or mass"  -=3D-

On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Anders Hogrelius SdU wrote:

> Hi everyone!
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> I'm trying to make a installation CD to use with the VS3100.
> I've made a ffs filesystem with all the stuff necessary on it and
> put it on a CD. I can boot the kernel on the CD without problem,
> but it's impossible to mount root on it. This is what happens.
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> <cut>
> root device (default cd0a):
> dump device (default cd0b):
> file system (default ffs):
> root on cd0a dumps on cd0b
> cannot mount root, error =3D 6
> </cut>
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> However, if i boot the kernel on my disk and try to mount cd0a it=20
> works without problem. I've been considering to use an md device,
> but unfortunately the 1.3.2 kernel won't compile with md.
> You might wonder why even bothering making a CD for 1.3.2, but
> since the SCSI stuff isn't working very well on the current kernel...
> What does error =3D 6 mean?
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> cheers,
> Anders
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