> 
> ive got a 2.9 gig drive, two of the partitions are 1 350 meg ufs and a
> 24 meg swap. the other partitions are MacOS. I formatted it with
> SilverLining 5.5. All the tarballs for the CURRENT 1.2 are installed on
> the drive, sans the secr.tar file. Im using generic_64 kernel.
> IIsi 9 meg ram WITH FPU

> i run booter 1.9.2 and (it is configured correctly) it goes thru the
> device list and everything and then its says 'switching root to sd1a' or
> something like that. it then accesses the drive, then says that it cant
> mount root and then pops unto the debugger. What gives?

Where do the boot messages say the drive is getting mounted? On sd1?

Also, you did build devices?

Another possability is that SilverLining didn't set the one little
flag which the kernel wants to see to consider the partition as valid.

Try booting single user and see what happens.

Take care,

Bill