Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 11:31:42 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Teilhard Knight <teilhk@Phreaker.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The last push Message-ID: <20030514111328.O69707-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1052850043.3292.38.camel@arlette.love.dad>
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On 13 May 2003, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> 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.
You shouldn't have "options ROOTDEVNAME", you don't need it, and its
actually causing problems in this case.
> Now, I am left at boot with an inquire for a manual root filesystem
> specification., like this:
>
> <fstype><device> mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
>
> eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
>
> ? List valid disk boot devices
>
> <empty line> abort manual imput
>
> mountroot>
>
>
> What to do now?
Did you try '?' to "List valid disk boot devices"?
> Last thing to note. In my previous kernel, the HD where I have FreeBDS
> installed was ad2, in this new kernel, it is ad1.
It looks like you want:
mountroot> ufs:ad1s1a
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Andy Farkas
System Administrator
Speednet Communications
http://www.speednet.com.au/
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