From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 28 3:32:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from kiop.wiredmedia.co.uk (wiredmedia-2.dsl.easynet.co.uk [212.135.181.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4BC237B719; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 03:32:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@tao.org.uk) Received: from tao.org.uk (postfix@genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.50] (may be forged)) by kiop.wiredmedia.co.uk (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f1SBc9372082; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:38:11 GMT (envelope-from joe@tao.org.uk) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 0AC3B313C; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:32:03 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:32:02 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: John Baldwin Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rootdev problems with /boot/loader. Message-ID: <20010228113202.A32458@tao.org.uk> References: <20010227214100.A850@tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 02:44:04PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 02:44:04PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: >=20 > On 27-Feb-01 Josef Karthauser wrote: > > I've got a bootable filesystem that although it's installed in the first > > slice on a disk the kernel/bootloader tries to mount /dev/ad0s2a as the > > root filesystem. I'm scratching my head as to why. Any ideas? > > It should be mounting /dev/ad0s1a automatically. > >=20 > > The following are set by /boot/loader: > > rootdev=3Ddisk1s1a > > currdev=3Ddisk1s1a: > >=20 > > Joe. > >=20 > > p.s. This image is being booted via /dev/md0 in vmware. What I'm > > trying to work out is whether it's a bug in either of these parts. >=20 > What does 'lsdev' show. Here's what lsdev shows: disk @ 0xf3e4 disk0: BIOS drive A: disk1: BIOS drive C: disk1s1a: FFS So why is it trying to book disk1s2a at mount time. /me's confused. Joe p.s. It's not devfs. It does the same thing with static dev nodes in /dev. --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjqc4bEACgkQXVIcjOaxUBZkPwCgxSDp2q7BJ0x934DCqfa4/GAg dcUAn0GUp/o3ICCNL8rKLy8wmI/zyxX7 =gTkO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message