Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 08:46:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Hanspeter Roth Bsag <roth@bsag.ch> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setrootbyname failed in 4.2-Beta Message-ID: <200011111646.eABGkL914085@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:58:34 %2B0100." <20001111145834.A2025@bs11.bsag.ch>
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> Hello,
>
> I have upgraded from 4.1-Release to 4.2-Beta.
> I've built a GENERIC kernel and run MAKEDEV all.
> But MAKEDEV didn't recreate the devices which are listed in fstab
> such as da0s1a.
This is irrelevant to your problem.
> The new kernel failes to mount the root filesystem.
> The messages are:
>
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> no such device "da"
> setrootbyname failed
>
> Then I get to mountroot>. The ?-command lists several devices but no 'da'.
>
> How can I make the new kernel run?
> Is there some documentation about new devices in 4.2-Beta?
When you built your new kernel, you left out something. Your SCSI disks
are probably not being probed (check the probe messages).
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