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Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 01:34:48 +0100
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: panic: cannot mount root
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On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 06:29:21PM -0600, Steve Price wrote:
> 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.

It seems OK to run true -current now.

> $ 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.

You want /dev/wd0s1a for the above case, I guess.

> The really odd thing is that the
> kernel says something like this on startup
>
> setting root_device to /dev/wd0s2a

This is due to a bug in the kernel.  If I understood correctly, it is
fairly hard to fix properly (and doesn't have any ill effects).
It only affect what is printed.

Eivind.

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