Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:17:26 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, garyj@peedub.muc.de Subject: Re: the new config and booting Message-ID: <199905120817.KAA03605@peedub.muc.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 May 1999 21:56:19 %2B0200." <1723.926452579@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >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/<mumble> 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 ? > no, it's a "dangerously dedicated" SCSI disk. the loader shows the floppy as DISK A and the SCSI disk as DISK B. I have to admit that I still have old boot blocks on the disk, but as I said, it worked OK before. --- Gary Jennejohn Home - garyj@muc.de Work - garyj@fkr.dec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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