From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 11 22:41:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Thingol.KryptoKom.DE (Thingol.KryptoKom.DE [194.245.91.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8284414D81 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:41:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eT@post.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by Thingol.KryptoKom.DE (8.9.1/8.9.1) id HAA11874; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 07:41:34 +0200 Received: from cirdan.kryptokom.de by KryptoWall via smtpp (Version 1.2.0) id kwa11872; Thu Aug 12 07:41:33 1999 Received: from fwd.kryptokom.de ([192.168.6.40]) by Cirdan.KryptoKom.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA07363; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 07:45:59 +0200 Received: from post.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fwd.kryptokom.de (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id HAA01588; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 07:49:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from eT@post.com) Message-ID: <37B26058.9B6A396F@post.com> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 07:49:12 +0200 From: eT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cillian Sharkey , Hackers FreeBSD Subject: Re: changing root device to ... References: <37B1A8C0.26BD96CA@baker.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cillian Sharkey wrote: > > but in the boot up, the message, "changing root device to wd0s1" keeps appearing and keeps > > failing. in my /etc/fstab i have the following entry: > > > /dev/sd0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 > > > does anyone have any ideas. > > > the sd0 is probed and attached successfully during startup, but the change root fails > > because it keeps on trying to change root to a wd0 IDE. > > would i be right in guessing that you used to have the FreeBSD > system on IDE disk wd0 after which you transferred it over to > SCSI disk sd0 ? Hi Cillian! Thanks for the reply. You are absolutely correct. This is exactely the case. > is the system still booting off the IDE disk (if present) ? Yes. But not from the SCSI > to boot your system off the SCSI disk you should be able > to enter the following at the boot prompt : > 0:sd(0,a)/kernel > (or whatever the name of your kernel is) which should set > the root device ok... This works .. but how do I inflict a permanent change so that I don't have to use that method any longer? With fdisk I set the partition as bootable on the SCSI disk and it seems to boot it now but it can't mount the root partition as I can't figure out what device name to use as my root device in the /etc/fstab. I tried all the /dev/sd0* permutations I could find. eT -- Etienne de Bruin; eT@post.com "Visit http://Welcome.to/Shophar". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message