Date: 13 May 2003 14:09:47 -0500 From: Teilhard Knight <teilhk@Phreaker.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The last push Message-ID: <1052852987.3291.61.camel@arlette.love.dad> In-Reply-To: <1052850043.3292.38.camel@arlette.love.dad> References: <1052850043.3292.38.camel@arlette.love.dad>
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On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 13:21, Teilhard Knight wrote: > I just subscribed to the list. I am running release 4.8. > I have compiled my kernel. Everything seems to be all right, > except that on boot it cannot mount root. > > It displays: "mounting root from ufs:ad2s2a", and a failure message. > then. it goes: "mounting root from ufs:da0s2e", and another failure > message (no such device "da"). This last attempt I think is done because > I added the line: > options ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:da0s2e\", which LINT gives for when the > root device cannot correctly guessed by the bootstrap code. > > Now, I am left at boot with an inquire for a manual root filesystem > specification., like this: > > <fstype><device> mount <device> using filesystem <fstype> > > eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a > > ? List valid disk boot devices > > <empty line> abort manual imput > > mountroot> > > > What to do now? I haven't been able to guess the right input, and I > haven't been able to fix the kernel. I have erased all filesystem types > from my configuration, except FFS. > > > Last thing to note. In my previous kernel, the HD where I have FreeBDS > installed was ad2, in this new kernel, it is ad1 An explanatory note. I just subscribed to the list newbies. I copied this message from my "sent" folder (never sent, I've been having problems with my mail server. You will notice I will change addy), and intended to send it there, but, silly of me, I missed to change the address. My apologies. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich?
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