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To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
From: Feisal Umar <afu@webcraft99.com>
Subject: Re: Re-Booting new -STABLE Kernel: Failure To Mount Root ..
  even  GENERIC
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Juha,

Perhaps the list is tired of this - but I cant help wondering:

Isnt  the recommended way is to re-boot with the NEW kernel first, before 
building the userland tools ?
Apologies if I trip myself on this

Thanks

At 12:51 PM 11/4/2000 +1300, you wrote:
>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
>
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>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=<KERNEL> and make installkernel
> > KERNEL=<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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Feisal Umar
Webcraft Sdn Bhd - http://www.webcraft99.com

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