From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 11 12:57: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B87CE15DD6 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 12:56:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA20823; Tue, 11 May 1999 21:56:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA01725; Tue, 11 May 1999 21:56:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Gary Jennejohn Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the new config and booting In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 May 1999 21:39:42 +0200." <199905111939.VAA02675@peedub.muc.de> Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 21:56:19 +0200 Message-ID: <1723.926452579@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199905111939.VAA02675@peedub.muc.de>, Gary Jennejohn writes: >I switched to the new config(8) today, where the ``config kernel root on..'' >line is no longer tolerated in the config file. > >I now have to ``boot -r'' to avoid a `can't mount root' panic. This wasn't >necessary before. > >I know I can probably put something into /boot/ to automate this. >Just thought I'd report my (negative) experience. What's your config ? It sounds like the boot code isn't telling the kernel the right thing... I belive it picks the bootmajor from the type field in the disklabel. (right Mike ?) So do you have a IDE/ATA disk labeled as SCSI by any chance ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message