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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:31:48 -0400
From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
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Subject: Re: How to mount mfsroot?
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Hi,

Yuri wrote: 
> I am trying to set up NFS install, and need to modify mfsroot to not 
> load sysinstall.
> But vnconfig is disabled in 8.0.
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html 
> suggests using "vnconfig vn0 mfsroot"
> But vnconfig is disabled in 8.0.
> 
> So I ran:
> mdconfig -a -t vnode -f mfsroot
> mount /dev/md0 /mnt/
> And got an error:
> mount: /dev/md0 : Invalid argument
> 
> What's wrong?
> Yuri

Have a look at the EXAMPLES section of mdconfig(8).  You need to
bsdlabel and newfs the md device.

Regards,

-- 
Glen Barber