From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 10 9:14:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1F2437BDD3 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:14:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from ip147.r11.d.bel.nwlink.com (ip147.r11.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.174.147]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA25892; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:13:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:07:29 -0800 (PST) From: R Joseph Wright X-Sender: rjoseph@mammalia.sea To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: single user mode problem In-Reply-To: <20000310.10064900@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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. > > > 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 ):-(. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message