From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 4 13:12: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC08237B718 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 13:12:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f24LDpj02261; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 13:13:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200103042113.f24LDpj02261@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: well! That root didn't work! Let's try another! In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 04 Mar 2001 11:01:17 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 13:13:51 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > This happened to me yesterday, and, haha, I didn't notice until I started to > see RSA stuff not working: > > da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing > Enabled > da0: 4340MB (8888924 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 553C) > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0a > no such device 'ad' > setrootbyname failed > ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp > Root mount failed: 6 > Mounting root from ufs:da0a > da0: invalid primary partition table: no magic > WARNING: clock lost 358 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! > > > My FreeBSD-alpha PC164 lost it's IDE disk for 4.2 somehow- which I'd just > loaded the 4.2 kernel from- so it decided to run off of da0 instead, which was > -current. Truly a startling turn of events. Shouldn't one stop and ask if the > root one asked for isn't available? There are two schools of thought here. One says "you should try very hard to find a root device", the other says "you should boot only from the exactly correct root device and complain otherwise". I took the first approach because its advocates shouted more loudly than those of the second. Would a louder warning message be enough of a compromised? -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message