From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 24 22:42:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from comnet.ca (comnet.ca [207.107.47.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A3BA37BE0B; Wed, 24 May 2000 22:42:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sarr0006@algonquincollege.com) Received: from algonquincollege.com (d-8.comnet.ca [207.107.44.8]) by comnet.ca (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e4P5g3I07966; Thu, 25 May 2000 01:42:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <392CBD10.9D8413D@algonquincollege.com> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 01:41:36 -0400 From: david X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4-stable won't boot References: <200005250335.UAA04703@mass.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just did a cvsup to RELENG_4 about noon EST today (Wed), built world, > > installed a new kernel, and rebooted. now, when I boot, I get the > > following: > ... > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a > > no such device 'ad' > > Sounds like you left the 'ad' device out of your new kernel config. Bad > idea. 8) > That turns out to be exactly what the problem was. For some reason, I had commented out the ATA entries in the kernel config file. I had noticed this, but repeated config-make-make installs hadn't had any effect. Your response told me that I was looking in the right area. It turns out that I had to do "config -r" in order to get the ATA code into the kernel. In any event, it works now, thanks a million! David Sarrazin > > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message