Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:51:00 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Nino Ivanov <niivanov@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 / Installation problem Message-ID: <20070315195057.GA87966@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <000001c7673a$381ac0f0$5300000a@HAL9000> References: <000001c766e0$2e7b04b0$5300000a@HAL9000> <14989d6e0703150428i30ad83dav554ec225f98312e7@mail.gmail.com> <20070315181241.GA86652@xor.obsecurity.org> <000001c7673a$381ac0f0$5300000a@HAL9000>
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:43:32PM +0100, Nino Ivanov wrote: > Dear Chistian, Dear Kris, > > I also think the RAM will not be the issue, as it is a text-only install, > and indeed, I am not planning to "get fancy". I completely don't need X. > Midnight Commander is perfectly fine as a working environment. 4.11 seemed > OK. > > But I am having a different problem right now, which I am still researching: > It does not recognize the device from where to mount root correctly. I mean > the following: When I put FreeBSD into the Compaq for installation, the > harddrive is ad4 or ad8. But in the system where I want to run it, the HP > Omnibook, it is ad0. > > Now, when I start it back in the HP Omnibook, it says that swap is not > configured correctly on ad8s-something. Which is true, it should look for it > on ad0... I have only once been able till now to mount root. (And this is my > basis for assuming that even 4.11 CAN potentially run.) I said as command > ufs:/dev/ad0 when it asked me where to mount root from. This worked, > however, e.g. ufs:/dev/ad0s1 did not work. I am thinking that I might have > made a mistake, and should have said ad0s1a. > > Yet, the principal new problem persists: FreeBSD does not realize that it > should now look at ad0 instead of ad4 or ad8. (However, in the booting > process, it correctly "sees" ad0 as having 325 MB etc.) Is there a way to > solve this? Probably the /etc/fstab is wrong and refers to the ad4 or ad8 devices. The root should indeed typically be ufs:/dev/ad0s1a. Kris
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