Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 12:57:39 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: ywliu@lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (Yen-Wei Liu) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fail to mount root after recompiling kernel Message-ID: <199507190327.MAA07452@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199507190319.MAA07423@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Yen-Wei Liu" at Jul 19, 95 10:49:38 am
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Yen-Wei Liu stands accused of saying:
> BTW, as for my 2nd machine, FreeBSD keeps trying to mount sd1a as root,
> rather than sd0s1 (or sd0a) where it should be. I cannot figure out
> what's wrong there since I didn't remember changing such kind of
> parameters. Is there any way to change the root device during the boot ?
> ('-a' doesn't work for the bootstrap codes.)
Try booting single-user (enter -s at the boot prompt), then mount the
root device, /usr, and edit /etc/fstab; I suspect that's where your problems
lie.
> Yen-Wei Liu
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