From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 14:44:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D341737B718 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:44:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f1RMekl87450; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:40:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010227214100.A850@tao.org.uk> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:44:04 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Josef Karthauser Subject: RE: rootdev problems with /boot/loader. Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Feb-01 Josef Karthauser wrote: > I've got a bootable filesystem that although it's installed in the first > slice on a disk the kernel/bootloader tries to mount /dev/ad0s2a as the > root filesystem. I'm scratching my head as to why. Any ideas? > It should be mounting /dev/ad0s1a automatically. > > The following are set by /boot/loader: > rootdev=disk1s1a > currdev=disk1s1a: > > Joe. > > p.s. This image is being booted via /dev/md0 in vmware. What I'm > trying to work out is whether it's a bug in either of these parts. What does 'lsdev' show. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message