From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 1 0:17:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC70337B422 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 00:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.9.3/1.13) id KAA45688; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:17:38 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:17:37 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: David Goddard Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader issue (was Re: Machine-specific errors with top and uemacs) Message-ID: <20000901101737.A44758@sunbay.com> Mail-Followup-To: David Goddard , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3.0.3.32.20000828212409.007ee7e0@dmg.parse.net> <3.0.3.32.20000820105701.0085f100@dmg.parse.net> <3.0.3.32.20000820105701.0085f100@dmg.parse.net> <20000821123424.C91965@sunbay.com> <3.0.3.32.20000828212409.007ee7e0@dmg.parse.net> <20000829100542.B12568@sunbay.com> <3.0.3.32.20000831233833.0085ae90@dmg.parse.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000831233833.0085ae90@dmg.parse.net>; from goddard@acm.org on Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:38:33PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:38:33PM +0100, David Goddard wrote: > At 10:05 29/08/00 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > >I am not sure it will help, but try reinstalling your boot blocks. > > Er, yes (now why didn't I think of that??). Loader is now working, but the > system now does not boot :-) > > It looks like loader is mounting wd0s3a as / as opposed to ad0s3a, and > consequently the boot fails with a "Specified device does not match mounted > device" error when it goes through fstab (which of course refers to ad0s3a). > Loader(8) does not mount filesystems, though it passes a kernel the name of root device. Do you see this problem without loader(8), i.e. when booting your /kernel directly from boot blocks (the technique is described in boot(8) manpage). How does your default prompt look like: >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: _ Do you see the `ad' or `wd' here? If you see the `ad' then the problem is most probably with your boot.config settings, perhaps you have a rootdev=foo there... -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message