From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 10 14:22:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA29513 for current-outgoing; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:22:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA29507 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:21:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA01781 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:21:47 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA00316; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 22:59:29 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970710225929.CA46543@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 22:59:29 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [pac@bvemx.ppco.com: kern/4068: 'panic: cant mount root' while booting new installation from disk 2.] References: <199707100825.SAA29710@godzilla.zeta.org.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199707100825.SAA29710@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Jul 10, 1997 18:25:27 +1000 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > It should at least hint about booting with -a (which current only works if > the kernel was configured with "swap on generic", but should always work), > and failed attempts to mount root should lead back to the -a prompt, at > least if the kernel was booted with -a (-a is not so good for boots > that should work automatically). Sounds reasonable. > This probably takes a negative amount > of code to implement :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)