From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 20:33:56 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA01161 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 20:33:56 -0700 Received: from lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw [140.109.7.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id UAA01106 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 20:33:39 -0700 Message-Id: <199507190333.UAA01106@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: by lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA03249; Wed, 19 Jul 95 10:49:38 +0800 From: Yen-Wei Liu Subject: Re: Fail to mount root after recompiling kernel To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 95 10:49:38 EAT Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507180855.SAA05275@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from "Michael Smith" at Jul 18, 95 6:25 pm Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > There's no problem with 'not recognising device names'; the first is an > odd compatability feature (though I'm mildly surprised that the installer > got it wrong; it never has for me...), the second appears to be > a misconfiguration or misunderstanding on your part. We'll need to know > what you're giving the bootstrap to boot from in order to answer that. > 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.) -- Yen-Wei Liu