From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 21 16:29:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28969 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 16:29:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA28962 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 16:29:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from bonsai.hiwaay.net (tnt3-9.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.9]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with SMTP id SAA21924 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 18:29:11 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <35145B61.41C67EA6@hiwaay.net> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 18:29:21 -0600 From: Steve Price X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: panic: cannot mount root Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, I finally decided to try a March 12th kernel and have been unsuccessful in getting it to work. Here is my /etc/fstab for a kernel from around February 25th. $ cat /etc/fstab /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0s2 none swap sw 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 /dev/wcd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/wd1s1 /u ufs rw 1 1 $ I have tried changing /dev/wd0a to /dev/wd0s1 but to no avail. The really odd thing is that the kernel says something like this on startup setting root_device to /dev/wd0s2a As can be seen from above /dev/wd0s2 is my swap device and I didn't know a beast like /dev/wd0s2a even existed (at least /etc/MAKEDEV doesn't create it). What am I missing? Thanks, Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message