From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 11 7:22:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Thingol.KryptoKom.DE (Thingol.KryptoKom.DE [194.245.91.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4129615093 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 07:22:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eT@post.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by Thingol.KryptoKom.DE (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA08256 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:22:55 +0200 Received: from cirdan.kryptokom.de by KryptoWall via smtpp (Version 1.2.0) id kwa08249; Wed Aug 11 16:22:41 1999 Received: from fwd.kryptokom.de ([192.168.6.40]) by Cirdan.KryptoKom.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02232 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:27:14 +0200 Received: from post.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fwd.kryptokom.de (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA00766 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:30:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from eT@post.com) Message-ID: <37B188FD.3BBF93F0@post.com> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:30:22 +0200 From: eT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hackers FreeBSD Subject: changing root device to ... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i have a scsi device and i want to change root to this device during startup. i added the following line in my kernel config file: config kernel root on sd0s1 but in the boot up, the message, "changing root device to wd0s1" keeps appearing and keeps failing. in my /etc/fstab i have the following entry: /dev/sd0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 does anyone have any ideas. the sd0 is probed and attached successfully during startup, but the change root fails because it keeps on trying to change root to a wd0 IDE. any ideas? eT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message