From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 22 20: 5:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kot.ne.mediaone.net (kot.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.15.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D0A14A0E for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 20:05:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net) Received: from rtfm.newton (rtfm.newton [10.10.0.1]) by kot.ne.mediaone.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA27602 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:04:20 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin X-Relay-IP: 10.10.0.1 Received: (from mi@localhost) by rtfm.newton (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA95661 for stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:04:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net) Message-Id: <199911230404.XAA95661@rtfm.newton> Subject: Re: speaking of 3.4... In-Reply-To: <3378.943323218@localhost> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 22, 1999 06:13:38 pm" To: stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:04:20 -0500 (EST) X-Face: %UW#n0|w>ydeGt/b@1-.UFP=K^~-:0f#O:D7w hJ5G_<5143Bb3kOIs9XpX+"V+~$adGP:J|SLieM31VIhqXeLBli" sysinstall writing out an entry into /boot/loader.conf : => => root_disk_unit="where i installed freebsd" = =Send diffs. I'm not sure how to figure this out from sysinstall in a =meaningful way, myself. I upgraded my special someone's -stable from the summer's to Nov 1st and the thing does not boot. What used to be wd1 is now wd2. I tried to change the `config kernel root on wd2' -- did not seem to affect anything. Then I found root_disk_unit is the loader(8) and tried setting it. Now at the boot time, the kernel says (correctly) "switching to wd2s1a" and then hangs :(incorrectly); I was booting with `-v', so my attempts to Alt-Fk were echoed on the console, but the gettys never satrted... boot_askname did not have any effect (was it supposed to in the presence of root_disk_unit?). The subject of my attention was getting noticeably irritated, so I switched to kernel.old, fixed the fstab back to wd1 and booted... But I could not investigate further for a sensible PR... -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message