From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 07:25:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 815D137B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 07:25:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail3.netbeat.de (mail3.netbeat.de [62.208.140.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 595BF43F75 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 07:25:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@gutza36.de) Received: (qmail 28998 invoked by uid 101); 19 Jun 2003 14:25:28 -0000 Received: from dsl01.212.114.232.71.nefkom.net (HELO Xanthos) (212.114.232.71) by mail3.netbeat.de with SMTP; 19 Jun 2003 14:25:28 -0000 From: "Alexandru Savescu" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:25:38 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3EF1E402.16413.48133F8@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.11) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Description: Mail message body X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: rofug@rofug.ro Subject: mountroot> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:25:27 -0000 Hello BSD-lovers, i'm stuck on a tricky situation: i got FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE running smoothly on a SCSI disk, but i had to move the HDD on a multi-OS system, so i am heading this problem: there are 3 disks - ad0: IDE WDC-drive with a MSwinOS - da0: SCSI IBM-drive with Debian Linux - da1: SCSI IBM FreeBSD disk ad0 is the primary disk with lilo in the MBR lilo.conf uses boot=/dev/hda ... /dev/sda1 to boot the debianOS /dev/sdb1 to boot FreeBSD well, this is working fine for winOS and linux but FreeBSD returns this error lines: Root mount failed: 22 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da2s1a Root mount failed: 22 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da2a Root mount failed: 22 Manual root filesystem specification: mountroot> i've tried all kind of combos like ufs:/dev/da1s1a but nothing worked out. what i still can't understand is why it's trying to mount /dev/da2 instead of /dev/da1 i would appreciate any advice! thank you in advance Alexandru Savescu