From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 28 23:33:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA16471 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 23:33:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotmail.com (f69.hotmail.com [207.82.250.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA16466 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 23:33:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bombfree@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 3079 invoked by uid 0); 29 Mar 1998 07:33:22 -0000 Message-ID: <19980329073322.3078.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 128.95.253.128 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 23:33:22 PST X-Originating-IP: [128.95.253.128] From: "Don Morrison" To: tomdean@ix.netcom.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: customising, compiling, and installing the kernel Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 23:33:22 PST Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >What is your disk configuration? >How many disks are attached to what kind of controller? >What DOs partitions are on the disks? > >When you encounter this problem, what is mounted? What is the output >of 'mount'? > >What does 'mount -u -a' do? > WOOHOO!! I figured it out! It was my /etc/fstab that needed editing! For some crazy reason, while the GENERIC kernel was running, mount wouldn't care that my root slice was designated as /dev/wd1a in /etc/fstab, but with the newly compiled kernel running, it would complain: /dev/wd1a on /: Specified device does not match mounted device. WIERD. All I had to do was change it to /dev/wd1s1a and voila. The GENERIC kernel was 2.2.5R, the new kernel (which I'm running now:) is 2.2.6 (updated through cvsup.) I guess 2.2.6 requires that fstab be more explicit? Anyways, thanks for the help, if you hadn't have pointed me towards mount I'd be messing around with my config line forever. I guess I had a hard time separating the kernel messages (stuff you can get back from dmesg,) and what comes after. The kernel could give a sh*t about explicitness on my config line; it's still set at wd1! :-) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message