Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:11:50 +0200 (CEST) From: 520023893678-0001@t-online.de (P. U. Kruppa) To: Teilhard Knight <teilhk@Phreaker.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: About my problem Message-ID: <20030514170331.X907@small.pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <1052896702.3300.17.camel@arlette.love.dad> References: <1052896702.3300.17.camel@arlette.love.dad>
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On Wed, 14 May 2003, Teilhard Knight wrote: > For those who do not know what I am talking about, this is what is > happening to me: > > > I have compiled my kernel. Everything seems to be all right, > except that on boot it cannot mount root. > > It displays: "mounting root from ufs:ad2s2a", and a failure message. > > 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> > > > The HD where FreeBSD is installed is ad2 in my previous kernel and in > this new one it is ad1. I have now found out that this is the source of > the problem. I checked the partition table, and the slices are called > ad2s2a ---> ad2s2g. If this is the case, no way I can mount root on a > disk called ad1 with those slices. I admit, I never tried it, but can't such problems be repaired using the boot and fixit floppies (or the installation cd-rom)? You could either access the disklabel editor or mount your root partition and edit /etc/fstab with ee. Just an idea. Uli. > > So, I'll pose a different question. Do you know of a possible way I can > make my new kernel to spot my HD as ad2? To me this is the only solution > possible. > > > > Teilhard Knight > The Extraterrestrial > > Who ate my sandwich? > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > +-----------------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | - Wuppertal - | | Germany | +-----------------------------------+
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