From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 02:40:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA24045 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:40:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA23935 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:40:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA19308; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:40:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:40:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Keith Jones cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems booting FBSD with SCSI+IDE drives In-Reply-To: <19980610115315.49846@blueberry.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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