Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 12:49:45 +0800 From: Feisal Umar <afu@webcraft99.com> To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re-Booting new -STABLE Kernel: Failure To Mount Root .. even GENERIC Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.0.20001104124112.00ae7090@192.168.1.22> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011041250200.5687-100000@vimfuego.saarinen. org> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001104064712.00adf7e8@mail.miway.com>
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Juha, Perhaps the list is tired of this - but I cant help wondering: Isnt the recommended way is to re-boot with the NEW kernel first, before building the userland tools ? Apologies if I trip myself on this Thanks At 12:51 PM 11/4/2000 +1300, you wrote: >Hi Feisal, > >Apologies if this is superfluous, but did you do 'make installworld' as >well, plus 'mergemaster' before booting with the new kernel? > >-- >Regards, > > >Juha > >PGP fingerprint: >B7E1 CC52 5FCA 9756 B502 10C8 4CD8 B066 12F3 9544 > >On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Feisal Umar wrote: > > > Until recently, I have no problems in compiling the kernel and userland > > tools of my DNS host running predominatly named and sshd (openssh) > > > > A few days ago, I cvsup'd to the latest source trees and issued the > routine > > make buildworld, make buildkernel KERNEL=<KERNEL> and make installkernel > > KERNEL=<KERNEL> without encountering any problems. Rebooting to the new > > kernel, however, resulted in an error Failed To Mount Root: > ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > > (or along that lines). Multiple tries still resulted in the same error. I > > had to manually re-boot the host using a previous kernel. > > > > Building the kernel using GENERIC resulted in the same errors. And for a > > couple of days now I have cvsup'd the latest sources again, even to the > > point removing /usr/src/* and /usr/obj/* and at each try, the new kernel > > fails to reboot with the same failure. > > > > For one, this is an isolated case, 'coz another host I maintain have no > > such problem compiling STABLE-4.2-BETA for days now (as a baseline for my > > production machines). > > > > I am at lost here. Appreciate any advices or thoughts on how to resolve > the > > matter. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > PS: The host was originally a STABLE-3.5, upgraded to STABLE-4.0, and > > undergone multiple kernel builds before. Last successful kernel build is > > STABLE-4.1.1 Friday Oct 20. > > > > -- > > > > Feisal Umar > > Webcraft Sdn Bhd - http://www.webcraft99.com > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > Feisal Umar Webcraft Sdn Bhd - http://www.webcraft99.com If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think they'll hate you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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