From owner-freebsd-hackers  Wed Aug 11 10: 0:28 1999
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From: Cillian Sharkey <cillian@baker.ie>
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> 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


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