From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 6 10:51:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt010nb9.san.rr.com [204.210.12.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 263B11582E for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 10:51:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA95327; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 10:51:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37D3FF1C.662B7493@gorean.org> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 10:51:24 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0904 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Reed Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2.8 - can't mount root References: <199909061626.CAA15997@cheops.anu.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Darren Reed wrote: > > Is there a way to get FreeBSD 2.2.8 to ask you for the root device > rather than have it attempt to mount and fail ? The 3.x branch is a lot smarter about this, but I agree that it would be nice in those situations where it still can't find it to stop and ask rather than just panic(). Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message