From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 19:51:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AFEA16A400 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:51:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ABAB13C4B7 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:51:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED9071A4D8D; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:51:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2A46E514EE; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:51:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:51:00 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Nino Ivanov Message-ID: <20070315195057.GA87966@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <000001c766e0$2e7b04b0$5300000a@HAL9000> <14989d6e0703150428i30ad83dav554ec225f98312e7@mail.gmail.com> <20070315181241.GA86652@xor.obsecurity.org> <000001c7673a$381ac0f0$5300000a@HAL9000> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c7673a$381ac0f0$5300000a@HAL9000> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 / Installation problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:51:02 -0000 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