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Date:      Sat, 14 Mar 1998 08:24:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: root filesystem and -current
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980314080427.220A-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980313100605.283A-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com>

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To anyone interested, 

I figured out what the solution was.  Apparently sometime ago I ran
/dev/MAKEDEV all which seem to remove sM[a-h] from all xdNsM[a-h] (where N
is the device number and M is the slice number) entries.  Actually it
didn't removed them, I just know that after running this script with the
'all' argument, I had to change all entries in my /etc/fstab from
/dev/sd0s2a --> /dev/sd0a, etc to be able to boot the next time.  When I
attempted to use the new 2.2.6-Beta kernel which eliminated the
"compatibility slice" the new kernel wouldn't boot.  When I tried
changing /etc/fstab to mount root on /dev/sd0s2a (because DOS/95 are on
sd0s1 for games) it could not because that slice was no longer valid.

The solution was remake each individual slice I need using /dev/MAKEDEV
and referencing my current /etc/fstab for the correct slices.  My system
then booted correctly under the new kernel.



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Burton Sampley
bsampley@best.com or bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu
PGP key available at http://www.best.com/~bsampley/pgp.html 



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