From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 14 21:23:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA03639 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 21:23:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.186.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA03633 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 21:23:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA00763; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 21:23:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 21:23:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Alastair Rankine cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot mount root In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Alastair Rankine wrote: > I installed a SCSI disk into my box the other day, and put FreeBSD 2.2.2 > onto it. Previously it was running FreeBSD 2.2.2 on the IDE disk. All works > just fine except that I can't seem to get it to remember where to mount the > root file system. The only way to start it up at present is to type > "1:sd(0,a)kernel" at the boot prompt. > > I have tried recompiling my kernel to tell it that root should be on sd0: > > config kernel root on sd0 > > .. but for some reason it tries to mount the root filesystem on sd1, not > sd0. Then panics because I don't have an sd1. > > I'm not sure if this is relevant, but the problem also happens if I boot > with "sd(0,a)kernel", that is without the "1:" prefix. > > Any suggestions? Try adding 1:sd(0,a)/kernel to /boot.conf. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo