From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 13 12:10:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0881537B401 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 12:10:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from babyruth.hotpop.com (babyruth.hotpop.com [204.57.55.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7A643F85 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 12:10:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from teilhk@Phreaker.net) Received: from phreaker.net (kubrick.hotpop.com [204.57.55.16]) by babyruth.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 5725621D898 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 19:10:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dsl-200-67-187-38.prodigy.net.mx (dsl-200-67-187-38.prodigy.net.mx [200.67.187.38]) by smtp-1.hotpop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB741A01E3 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 19:09:21 +0000 (UTC) From: Teilhard Knight To: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <1052850043.3292.38.camel@arlette.love.dad> References: <1052850043.3292.38.camel@arlette.love.dad> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1052852987.3291.61.camel@arlette.love.dad> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Date: 13 May 2003 14:09:47 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: The last push X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 19:10:13 -0000 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: > > mount using filesystem > > eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a > > ? List valid disk boot devices > > 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?