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From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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Subject: Re: problems with Qlogic SCSI combo card
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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





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