Ultimate Noob Question

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Sun, April 12, 2009 11:07 am, imag1nary number wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I'm interested in testing out a couple BSDs and perhaps replacing my Linux
> distro.  Unfortunately booting the LiveCD has stumped me.  It asks
> something like where to mount root, then gives the options to panic,
> abort, and something else.  I've never encountered this on any LiveCD I've
> run, including Jibbed.  Can someone point me in the right direction so I
> can start to learn this system?  Thanks much in advance!

It's having trouble finding your disk.  What chipset is your
motherboard/controller?

I don't know if knowing that is going to result in anything other than
"yep, that doesn't work."