Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 10:31:27 +1030 From: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au> To: Trenton Schulz <twschulz@gloria.cord.edu> Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: trouble booting Message-ID: <3509C8D7.60F8C892@camtech.net.au> References: <Pine.BSI.3.96.980313092857.24726A-100000@gloria.cord.edu>
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Change your /etc/fstab root filesystem entry.
You obviously haven't been reading the cvs-all
mailing list and thus should not be running current.
from:
/dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1
to:
/dev/wd0s2a / ufs rw 1 1
Trenton Schulz wrote:
>
> My recent CVSUP from 3/9 on seems to give me trouble when I'm booting. My
> computer's hard disk has two partitions one for DOS and one for FreeBSD.
> The Make World and re-making the kernel go alright, but when I boot, the
> kernel tells me it is switching the root device to wd0s3a. At this point
> it seems to fsck the disks but then gives the message that the "filesystem
> failed to mount" and puts me in single user mode with a read-only root
> filesystem. Luckily the previous kernel still boots correctly. This
> allowed the correct specification of devices is fstab, (wd0s2a for root
> device, wd0s3a causing the system to not do anything) but when I reboot
> the machine it still gives me the same error about the filesystem failing.
> When I try to remount root it tells me that wd0s2a doesn't match mounted
> device, but yet if I mount wd0s2a on /mnt, it _is_ the root partition. I
> thought a new make world and kernel would solve this problem, but it
> hasn't. I'm sorry for being so ignorant on what to do, but could someone
> please help me get my system to boot on something besides an old kernel?
>
> Trenton Schulz
> twschulz@cord.edu
>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys reboot.h src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c
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> Modified files:
> sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c
> Log:
> Construct the minor number for the root device taking into account the
> slice number passed in by the bootblocks. This means the kernel will
> not use the compatability slice to obtain the root filesystem when
> booting from a sliced disk.
*WARNING*
If your boot disk is sliced (has a partition table), and you have not
upgraded /sbin/mount to the most recent version preceeding this change,
you will have problems booting.
This change means that if your current /etc/fstab looks like this:
/dev/xd0a / ufs ...
/dev/xd0s2e /usr ufs ...
you need to update it to look like:
/dev/xd0s2a / ufs ...
/dev/xd0s2e /usr ufs ...
Note that the root filesystem is now consistent with the others. If
you are using a 'dedicated' disk, you will have entries like
/dev/xd0a / ufs ...
/dev/xd0e /usr ufs ...
and you should *not* change.
The recent update to /sbin/mount includes compatability support which
will ease this transition.
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