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From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To: Yen-Wei Liu <ywliu@lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw>
Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Fail to mount root after recompiling kernel
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Yen-Wei Liu writes:

 > Yes and no. The boot manager selects sd(1,a) itself automatically. When
 > trying to mount sd1a as the root, it simply panics for failing to mount
 > root. 
 > 
 > I didn't touch the boot manager (i.e. the [[wd(xvxc)]/kernel][-asdfadf] 
 > selection screen) after finishing installation, unless compiling kernel
 > would change it.
 > 
We've seen the system also fail on situation where the root partition
is on wd2a on machine where there is IDE-disk wd0a(DOS), IDE-CD on wd1a and
second IDE-disk on wd2a. It tries to use wd1a for root and panics.

The board is Plato III.

Pete