From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 2 06:16:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA26451 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 06:16:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA26433 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 06:16:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.054 #3) id 0zlChn-00005K-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 13:52:35 +0000 Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 13:52:35 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel uses wrong root device Message-ID: <19981202135235.A301@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19981202134436.A301@scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <19981202134436.A301@scientia.demon.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.17i (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wrote: > changing root device to wd1a > changing root device to wd1s1a > panic: can't mount root That should be changing root device to wd1s1a changing root device to wd1a error 6: panic: cannot mount root (2) error 6 is ENXIO, device not configured according to src/sys/errno.h. Hardly surprising a non-existent device isn't configured really :-( -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message