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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a DockStar - doesn't mount root
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On Monday 07 February 2011 16:38:35 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:

[snip]
 
> Thanks to Milan I now know how to perform the "dot trick" - thanks! :-)
> It seems to my mountroot prompt is a bit different, it doesn't mention
> '.' as a "command" for the prompt, and it says it is trying to mount
> from it:
> mountroot> ?
> 
> List of GEOM managed disk devices:
> 
> Loader variables:
> vfs.root.mountfrom=
> vfs.root.mountfrom.options=
> 
> Manual root filesystem specification:
>   <fstype>:<device>  Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
>                        eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
>                        eg. cd9660:/dev/acd0
>                        This is equivalent to: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /
> 
>   ?                  List valid disk boot devices
>   <empty line>       Abort manual input
> 

You did not mention (or I overlooked it) which version your kernel is built 
from, I am using for both ARM and MIPS devices only 9-CURRENT. In your worklog 
page it looks like your kernel is 8-SOMETHING based. If that's the case, could 
you eventually try current?

Milan