From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 23:04:38 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 0C17416A400 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:04:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from mail.applied-epistemics.com (mail.applied-epistemics.com [65.39.221.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5D0213C44C for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:04:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from [192.168.1.134] (c-75-72-199-210.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [75.72.199.210]) by mail.applied-epistemics.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5592C63318F; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:04:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:04:45 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <000001c766e0$2e7b04b0$5300000a@HAL9000> <000001c7673a$381ac0f0$5300000a@HAL9000> <20070315195057.GA87966@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070315195057.GA87966@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703151804.45718.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Nino Ivanov , Kris Kennaway 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 23:04:38 -0000 On Thursday 15 March 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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 I'm a tad confused, as I thought we were talking about FBSD 2.x, which would've called your drive wd0, not ad0. But Kris is correct in that your fstab is wrong...your /boot/loader.conf probably has the wrong root device as well. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel