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Date:      Sat, 21 Mar 1998 18:20:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Subject:   Re: panic: cannot mount root
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980321182049.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
In-Reply-To: <35146B6A.41C67EA6@hiwaay.net>

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On 22-Mar-98 Steve Price wrote:
> Eivind Eklund wrote:
>> 
>> You want /dev/wd0s1a for the above case, I guess.
> 
> Still doesn't work right.  Here is a more detailed version
> of what I am seeing.
> 
> ...
> changing root device to wd0s2a
> ...
> Filesytem mount failed, startup aborted.
> ...
># /sbin/mount /dev/wd0s1 /
> /dev/wd0s1 on /: Specified device does not match mounted device.
># /sbin/mount /dev/wd0s1a /
> /dev/wd0s1a on /: No such file or directory
># /sbin/mount /dev/wd0s1 /mnt
> WARNING: R/W mount of / denied.  Filesystem is not clean - run fsck.
> /dev/wd0s1 on /mnt: Operation not permitted

This is easy.

cd /dev;./MAKEDEV wds1a

Make sure you have, in /dev:

brw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 0x00020002 Mar 21 18:20 /dev/wd0s1
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 0x00020000 Mar 21 18:20 /dev/wd0s1a
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 0x00020001 Mar 21 18:20 /dev/wd0s1b
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 0x00020002 Mar 21 18:20 /dev/wd0s1c
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 0x00020003 Mar 21 18:20 /dev/wd0s1d
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 0x00020004 Mar 21 18:20 /dev/wd0s1e
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 0x00020005 Mar 21 18:20 /dev/wd0s1f
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 0x00020006 Mar 21 18:20 /dev/wd0s1g
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 0x00020007 Mar 21 18:20 /dev/wd0s1h

># 
> 
> Yet if I revert to an older kernel everything works
> fine.  And yes the root_device is clean so running
> fsck is not required with this older kernel.
> 
> Steve
> 
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Sincerely Yours, 

Simon Shapiro
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