Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:40:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Keith Jones <keith@blueberry.co.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems booting FBSD with SCSI+IDE drives Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980612023918.11999S-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980610115315.49846@blueberry.co.uk>
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On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Keith Jones wrote: > > If I attempt to boot FreeBSD from this spurious partition '1:sd(1,a)' > everything appears to work okay until the end of the device initialisation > (all the stuff in bold) when it gives the message > > changing root device to st1s1a > panic: cannot mount root > > which is rather odd, because I didn't configure st0 in my kernel, and there > is patently no such device as 'st1s1a'. That's a typo, it should be sd1s1a. > If I boot from '1:sd(0,a)' then the system will boot up correctly on the > correct device. > > I've added this line to the file '/boot.config' which solves the problem > permanently - but is this a bug or merely a 'feature'? It's a PC `feature'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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