From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 5 03:21:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA21690 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 03:21:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk ([194.72.37.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA21679 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 03:21:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@internationalschool.co.uk) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk (bamboo [10.0.0.70]) by internationalschool.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02953; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 11:18:51 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <35C8318E.D1AC3BA5@internationalschool.co.uk> Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 11:18:54 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Roskowski CC: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: "config kernel root on .." broken?? (was Re: install friendly?) References: <3.0.5.32.19980803115454.0155c100@mail.mpath.com> <3.0.5.32.19980804172310.01567cd0@mail.mpath.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Roskowski wrote: > > step 5) pops up to the boot loader, I say BSD > step 6) BSD starts initial stuff, I get a boot prompt and let it timeout > step 7) BSD panic stops, can't find root, reboot this seems to have changed somewhere fairly late in 2.2.6-stable - you used (certainly ok in kernel cvsupped 6 July) to be able to have 'config kernel root on wd0' (in the kernel configuration file - as is found in the generic kernel) and it would also work if the root was on sd0. now when you try it, it panics unless you build a new kernel with 'config kernel root on sd0'. ("panic can't mount root" i think, although it doesn't get far enough to write the error message to /var/log/messages). if it wasn't for this, the only difficulty you would have had with the installation would have been working out how to put the boot loader on the IDE drive, which you got right anyway :-) perhaps technically it shouldn't have worked before, but I don't think I would have got FreeBSD installed on the PC i'm using now without building a custom kernel (no wd0 harddrive). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message