Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:47:22 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.EDU>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with Qlogic SCSI combo card Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002251146420.9763-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <14518.55904.927335.311841@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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> > The hardware is fine. His problem is pilot error -- he has probably > booted from a Tru64 disk (or NetBSD, or OpenBSD, or Linux using BSD > disklabels, etc). This can happen with the new bootstrap glue from > Mike Smith which obtains the location of / from /etc/fstab. > > He needs to fix this by breaking into the boot loader & setting > vfs.root.mountfrom to the appropriate disk. > > Somethine like > > ok set vfs.root.mountfrom=da1 > > is probably what he needs. I'm not terribly confident the > syntax is correct. Probably. When I plug it in, we'll see. I personally just use the 'n' flag when I'm booting off a non-FreeBSD disk. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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