On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:55:48PM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> On my fourth i386 machine that I've installed a new bootloader to
> support a serial console, suddenly I'm getting locked out.  The
> boot proceeds fine until the following panic:
> 	root on wd0a   dumps on wd0b
> 	root file system type: ffs
> 	panic: cnopen: cn_tab -> cn_dev == NODEV
> 
> 	syncing disks ... done
> 
> 	dumping to dev 0.1
> Is there anything at all that can be done to recover, or do I get
> to reinstall?  (Real bummer.)

You can boot from floppy and reinstall a working boot block.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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