Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 04:53:29 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, sthaug@nethelp.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root mount failed:22 ??? Message-ID: <38384DB9.AF5FC02A@newsguy.com> References: <102.943174393@verdi.nethelp.no> <199911210851.AAA03911@dingo.cdrom.com> <19991121110519.A38340@freebsd.org>
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"Andrey A. Chernov" wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 12:51:59AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > You're not using the loader, so nothing gets to read /etc/fstab and set
^^^^^^
> > vfs.root.mountfrom. Thus the kernel can't use it to find the root
> > filesystem. I should probably emit a diagnostic to the effect that it
> > wasn't set, since in many cases to come that will be fatal for the boot
> > process.
>
> I just rebuild/reinstall -current /kernel and /sys/boot and update
> bootblocks via disklabel, as result diagnostic
> in question gone, but I _not_ see vfs.root.mountfrom variable in my
> sysctl -a output.
Loader/kernel environment variables are not sysctls.
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