From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 13 15:54:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B93F937B405 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 15:54:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from babyruth.hotpop.com (babyruth.hotpop.com [204.57.55.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BD2B43F85 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 15:54:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from teilhk@Phreaker.net) Received: from phreaker.net (kubrick.hotpop.com [204.57.55.16]) by babyruth.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 3989022A670 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 22:54:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dsl-200-67-187-38.prodigy.net.mx (dsl-200-67-187-38.prodigy.net.mx [200.67.187.38]) by smtp-1.hotpop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 390401A00AE for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 22:54:38 +0000 (UTC) From: Teilhard Knight To: Newbies Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1052866503.11481.3.camel@arlette.love.dad> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Date: 13 May 2003 17:55:09 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- Subject: Root mounting X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 22:54:50 -0000 I just subscribed to the list. I am running release 4.8. I have compiled my kernel. Everything seems to be all right, except that on boot it cannot mount root. It displays: "mounting root from ufs:ad2s2a", and a failure message. then. it goes: "mounting root from ufs:da0s2e", and another failure message (no such device "da"). This last attempt I think is done because I added the line: options ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:da0s2e\", which LINT gives for when the root device cannot correctly guessed by the bootstrap code. Now, I am left at boot with an inquire for a manual root filesystem specification., like this: mount using filesystem eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices abort manual imput mountroot> What to do now? I haven't been able to guess the right input, and I haven't been able to fix the kernel. I have erased all filesystem types from my configuration, except FFS. Last thing to note. In my previous kernel, the HD where I have FreeBDS installed was ad2, in this new kernel, it is ad1. Cheers. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich?