Date: 13 May 2003 23:12:17 -0500 From: Teilhard Knight <teilhk@Phreaker.net> To: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The last push Message-ID: <1052885537.11481.51.camel@arlette.love.dad> In-Reply-To: <20030514111328.O69707-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> References: <20030514111328.O69707-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>
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On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 20:31, Andy Farkas wrote: > 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. Yes, I figured that up myself, and I erased it already. > > > 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"? No, I haven't. I will now. > > 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 I tried it in the form ufs:/dev/ads1s1a, and it didn't work. I'll try it as you say now. Thanks for your feedback. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich?
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