Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:12:41 +0100 (CET) From: roberto@redix.it To: Alexander.Farber@t-online.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swapped disks and now stuck in the mountroot> prompt Message-ID: <1095.151.30.78.110.1073776361.squirrel@mail.redix.it>
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I run into the same problem: I've installed FreeBSD 4.9 on a ide0:0 (primary IDE, master hd) then ported the hard disk on a second PC and installed as ide1:0 (secondary IDE, master hd). When booting the kernel start probing devices but halts when it try to mount the root file system with the following message: mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a root mount failed: 6 At the prompt I've tried with ufs:/dev/ad2s1a but it does not work. The problem is that the kernel (in some way that I do not know) is instructed to load /dev/ad0s1a as root file system (yes at this stage the config file /etc/fstab is not involved yet, becouse it is no available until the root file system will be mounted). The solution is to instruct the kernel with the right device: ad2s1a seems to be wrong... I'm working on it... Bye Roberto
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