From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 20:17:56 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA00157 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 20:17:56 -0700 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA00151 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 20:17:54 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with ESMTP id UAA16106 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 20:17:46 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA07452; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 12:57:40 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507190327.MAA07452@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Fail to mount root after recompiling kernel To: ywliu@lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (Yen-Wei Liu) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 12:57:39 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507190319.MAA07423@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Yen-Wei Liu" at Jul 19, 95 10:49:38 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 922 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[