From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 19 20:29:27 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA01240 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 20:29:27 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA01187 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 20:29:18 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA09852; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 13:11:43 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507200341.NAA09852@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Fail to mount root after recompiling kernel To: ywliu@lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (Yen-Wei Liu) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 13:11:42 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507200316.MAA09803@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Yen-Wei Liu" at Jul 20, 95 10:49:54 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1275 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Yen-Wei Liu stands accused of saying: > > Yen-Wei Liu stands accused of saying: > > Hmm. IIRC, you have an IDE disk in this machine as well? You'll need to > > boot hd(1,a) for this to work. > > Yes. I use hd(1,a) to boot and it works !! This only leaves more questions > to me : why the bootstrap code automatically select sd(1,a) rather than > hd(1,a) ? (A bug ?) Why orginally sd(1,a) (or whatever it selected > automatically) worked but not any more ? (A bug ?) You would never have been able to boot in that situation unless you specified hd(1,a). The "bug" is that it is impossible for the bootstrap to tell what disk it is on; the problem is complicated and not easy to explain unless you already understand it 8) > I will try to re-install my FreeBSD several times until I can pinpoint > where went wrong. Nothing went 'wrong' per se, you just Can't Do That (tm). > Yen-Wei Liu -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[