Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 01:05:37 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Shigeyuki FUKUSHIMA <shige@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount root problem? on elf kernel Message-ID: <199811290905.BAA00521@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Nov 1998 23:39:23 %2B0900." <19981116233923X.shige@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
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> I have an error in booting ELF kernel and mounting root device. > > I am using 3.0-current(Nov 15, 1998) and ELF kernel on that system. > > I have the following disks on my pc: wd0, da0. > Wd0 only includes DOS slices, and da0 only includes FreeBSD slices. > System BIOS probes IDE -> SCSI. Hence, wd0 is drive C, da0 is drive D. > > BTX loader says: > > Disk 0 Drive A > Disk 1 Drive C > Disk 2 Drive D > > > In my configurations: > > * da0s1a:/boot.config > > /boot/loader > > * da0s1a:/boot/boot.conf > > set rootdev=disk0s1a: This was broken until recently. You should now be ignoring $rootdev, and setting $num_ide_disks to 1. > (...snip... device probing, changing root device, fsck report) > mount: /dev/da0s1a on /: specified device does not match mounted device > Filesystem mount failed, startup aborted > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > > And, I modified da0s1a:/etc/fstab as follows: > > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# > /dev/da0a / ufs rw 1 1 > (...snip...) > > And reboot again. > Then, I have a properly system boot without mounting errors. > > I should use da0a in /etc/fstab instead of da0s1a, right? > Or I have a some mistake in my configulations? I'm not sure if this is related to your BOOTBIAS config option. You should remove it and use $num_ide_disks instead. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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