From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 6:40:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B05137B40B for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [204.179.120.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D59E743E4A for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnorm@mac.com) Received: from smtp-relay03.mac.com (smtp-relay03-en1 [10.13.10.222]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.1/8.10.2/1.0) with ESMTP id g7FDe6XK012540 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com (asmtp02-qfe3 [10.13.10.66]) by smtp-relay03.mac.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/1.0) with ESMTP id g7FDe6KN025071 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([67.33.99.151]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H0W0MT00.P1G for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:40:05 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:39:47 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: mountroot prompt From: G Norm To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <775F01FF-B054-11D6-A131-003065A51656@mac.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can someone help me with a problem that I am having after building & installing a custom kernel? I recently cvsup'ed from 4.4 release to 4.6 stable. That process went well. I went on to compile and install a custom kernel and that seem to have gone well also. My problem is, now the computer will not boot normally. The boot process fails with the following message. Mounting root from usf:/dev/ad0s1a no such device 'ad' setrootbyname failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 Manual root filesystem specification: : Mount using filesystem eg. ufs:/dev/daos1a ? List valid disk boot devices Abort manual input mountroot> According to the book that I am reading I should boot into the old kernel by pressing the appropriate F-key to get past the bootloader to try to fix this problem. I have no idea which F-key is the appropriate F-Key so I have not been able to get past the boot loader to try the recommended command, boot /boot/kernel.old. I have not been able to boot into my old kernel. Gregory Norman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message