From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 6 09:10:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA07925 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:10:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from server.amis.net (server.amis.net [195.10.52.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07870 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:10:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blaz@gold.amis.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by server.amis.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id SAA20097 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 18:09:29 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 266 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Jan 1999 17:07:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Jan 1999 17:07:21 -0000 Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 18:07:21 +0100 (CET) From: Blaz Zupan To: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin cc: Alfred Perlstein , "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel cannot mount root with new bootblocks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > All in all I do agree with dumping the old blocks in favor of the > new. As a temporary work around I put "0:da(1,a)kernel" in /boot.config, > yes, boot.config. The original pposter might try this or something > similar. Yes, this actually works. I notice that the boot code tries to boot 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader. So I tried 0:da(1,a)/boot/loader which brought up the loader, but then it could not find the kernel again and I had to type boot disk1s4a:/kernel to boot the kernel, which then again failed after trying to go multiuser, because it said I'm not remounting the same root partition. Something's really broken with the boot code in this respect. I guess Alfreds solution with wiring down the devices would help as well, but for now the above solution works for me and it works without recompiling the kernel (which is painfull on a 486). Although I'm getting more and more confused by the PC architecture booting process and I'm really starting to appreciate Mr. Nordier's work ;) Blaz Zupan, blaz@medinet.si, http://home.amis.net/blaz Medinet d.o.o., Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message