Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:07:29 -0800 (PST) From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> To: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: single user mode problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003100903390.1198-100000@mammalia.sea> In-Reply-To: <20000310.10064900@bartequi.ottodomain.org>
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> > This has been going on for awhile, and I've looked everywhere for a
> > solution. When I boot single user, the / filesystem gets mounted on
> > wd0s4a even though /dev does not even have such an entry nor does
> > /etc/fstab, since these have all been updated.
> > This is not really such a problem until I try to exit from single user
> > mode. Then, it tries to remount / on ad0s4a and can't find it.
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>
> Dear Joseph,
>
> as I have recently written, I met an analogous problem while upgrading
> to CURRENT: the "wdNsMa syndrome" appeared when I rebooted in s.u.m.
> with the shining gleaming roaring freshly-made 4.0-CURRENT kernel in
> order to (somehow) make installworld. Well, I did NOT care about it
> and I went ahead ruthlessly ...
>
> By the way, I made another kernel at the end of the process ("by the
> book"). I suppose (?) this cleared the problem. In fact, I was able to
> boot with no weird messages: all my filesystems were correctly
> identified as adNsM (e.g. ad1s2a, ad1s2e ...)
Hi Salvo,
I did read your recent post on this. For me, however, the problem
persists even with a new kernel. I've looked through all the boot and
init files for some clue as to where it's getting the idea that / is on
wd0s4a but I can't find anything ):-(.
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