From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 3 15:52: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF4E37B479 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:51:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (softdnserr [::ffff:192.168.1.1]) (IDENT: foobar) by saarinen.org with esmtp; Sat, 04 Nov 2000 12:51:58 +1300 Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 12:51:57 +1300 (NZDT) From: Juha Saarinen To: Feisal Umar Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Re-Booting new -STABLE Kernel: Failure To Mount Root .. even GENERIC In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20001104064712.00adf7e8@mail.miway.com> Message-ID: X-S: Always Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Feisal, Apologies if this is superfluous, but did you do 'make installworld' as well, plus 'mergemaster' before booting with the new kernel? -- Regards, Juha PGP fingerprint: B7E1 CC52 5FCA 9756 B502 10C8 4CD8 B066 12F3 9544 On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Feisal Umar wrote: > Until recently, I have no problems in compiling the kernel and userland > tools of my DNS host running predominatly named and sshd (openssh) > > A few days ago, I cvsup'd to the latest source trees and issued the routine > make buildworld, make buildkernel KERNEL= and make installkernel > KERNEL= without encountering any problems. Rebooting to the new > kernel, however, resulted in an error Failed To Mount Root: ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > (or along that lines). Multiple tries still resulted in the same error. I > had to manually re-boot the host using a previous kernel. > > Building the kernel using GENERIC resulted in the same errors. And for a > couple of days now I have cvsup'd the latest sources again, even to the > point removing /usr/src/* and /usr/obj/* and at each try, the new kernel > fails to reboot with the same failure. > > For one, this is an isolated case, 'coz another host I maintain have no > such problem compiling STABLE-4.2-BETA for days now (as a baseline for my > production machines). > > I am at lost here. Appreciate any advices or thoughts on how to resolve the > matter. > > Thanks in advance. > > PS: The host was originally a STABLE-3.5, upgraded to STABLE-4.0, and > undergone multiple kernel builds before. Last successful kernel build is > STABLE-4.1.1 Friday Oct 20. > > -- > > Feisal Umar > Webcraft Sdn Bhd - http://www.webcraft99.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message