From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 11 10: 0:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from vax1.baker.ie (VAX1.baker.IE [194.125.50.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF935155A5 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:00:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cillian@baker.ie) Received: from baker.ie ([194.125.50.55]) by vax1.baker.ie with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:04:31 +0100 Message-ID: <37B1A8C0.26BD96CA@baker.ie> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:45:52 +0100 From: Cillian Sharkey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eT Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing root device to ... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > but in the boot up, the message, "changing root device to wd0s1" keeps appearing and keeps > failing. in my /etc/fstab i have the following entry: > /dev/sd0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 > does anyone have any ideas. > the sd0 is probed and attached successfully during startup, but the change root fails > because it keeps on trying to change root to a wd0 IDE. would i be right in guessing that you used to have the FreeBSD system on IDE disk wd0 after which you transferred it over to SCSI disk sd0 ? is the system still booting off the IDE disk (if present) ? to boot your system off the SCSI disk you should be able to enter the following at the boot prompt : 0:sd(0,a)/kernel (or whatever the name of your kernel is) which should set the root device ok... Regards, - Cillian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message