From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 24 11:14:40 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95CCB37B401; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:14:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FCD043E65; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:14:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA03820; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 04:13:01 +1000 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 04:24:07 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Bakul Shah , Takahashi Yoshihiro , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_disk.c write_i386_disk.c write_pc98_disk.c In-Reply-To: <1103.1035479390@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: <20021025041846.B1170-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <200210241603.MAA18418@leviathan.cnchost.com>, Bakul Shah writes: > > >Here is a *non* PC98 machine report. My 4 year old Toshiba > >Ultium (a Ppro machine with onboard aic 7880 scsi controller) > >does not boot. It can't find the root device and drops into > >the rootmount menu. Until now I haven't had any time to even > >hook up a serial port -- hope to send a more detailed report > >today. > > Make sure you don't have one of the bogus "ad0a" style devices > listed for your root filesystem. Yes, standard slice names are now decreed bogus. You have to use i386-centric names like ad0s4a, at least on i386's with disks that actually have slices. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message