From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 8 22:22:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA11085 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 22:11:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA10990 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 22:09:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA19324; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 16:39:16 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA00704; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 16:39:16 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980309163916.42581@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 16:39:16 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Smith Cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: Latest -current kernel panics on boot References: <19980309160316.00609@freebie.lemis.com> <199803090541.VAA13322@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199803090541.VAA13322@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 09:41:57PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 8 March 1998 at 21:41:57 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> I've just (finally been able to) build and boot a new kernel, but I >> don't get as far as mounting the root file system. I get a fatal page >> fault in ufs_ihashget when the swapper tries to mount /dev/wds02a >> (yup, that's right, and I don't know where it gets it from). It's >> before the swap partition gets mounted, so I don't have a dump. I >> wrote down a trace, but I'm assuming that we don't need that level of >> detail, so I won't type it in unless somebody wants it. > > What does the 'config' line in your kernel look like? It's possible > that some of the static configuration code can't deal with the slice > number in the minor. Yes, I thought of that too. Nothing spectacular: config kernel root on wd0 >> Since Mike Smith sent some information about changing /etc/fstab round >> this morning, I changed my fstab entry from > > Have you rebuilt/reinstalled /sbin/mount? Yup. Complete make world cvsupped this morning (Monday). >> This doesn't seem to be problem, though: it doesn't work either way. >> The old kernel only works with wd0a, and the new kernel doesn't work >> with either fstab entry. > > You should receive a "changing root device to ..." message after your > device probes with the new kernel. That's where it dies. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message