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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:38:28 -0700
From: John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>
To: Hayden Katzenellenbogen <haydenk@nextlevelinternet.com>
Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: SCSI disk boot fail RC #7
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On 2001.08.21 14:36 Hayden Katzenellenbogen wrote:
> I just did and upgrade to the latest source of FreeBSD 4.4-RC1 #7
> 
> After booting the machine it gets to waiting for devices to settle and
> well
> it does not get much further it says it can not mount the device and
> the
> prompts with a mountroot> prompt.
> 
> I am now  using kernel.old (RC1 #6) this kernel works fine.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what the fix for this is.
> 
> Also how does one copy kernel.old to kernel as it gives me an
> operation not
> permitted no matter what I try
> 
> Thanks
> Hayden
> 
> 

I'm getting the same problem.  The new kernel fails to find any of my
IDE devices (it doesn't even load ata anything anymore).  It then drops
me to the mountroot> prompt.

For those of us with working GENERIC kernels, the work around is to
press <SPACEBAR> during the boot countdown, unload the bad kernel, and
then boot kernel.GENERIC.  You'll be able to copy the kernel.GENERIC
over kernel from a root prompt.

jmc

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