Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 06:18:11 -0400 From: Russell Rice <the-mole@attbi.com> To: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: setrootbyname error upon install/upgrade Message-ID: <20020927101811.GA270@gopher.molecomputers.net>
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I have what appears to be a strange dilemma.
I attempt to install 4.6 and upon first-boot, I get the following:
<snip>
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
acd0: CDROM <E-IDE CD-ROM CR840S> at ata1-slave BIOSPIO
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
no such device 'ad'
setrootbyname failed
ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
Root mount failed: 6
Manual root filesystem specification:
<fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
? List valid disk boot devices
<empty line> Abort manual input
mountroot>
When I do the ? option, it outputs:
Possibly valid devices for the 'ufs' root:
"console" "ctty" "mem" "pts" "ptc" "log" "fd" "sc" "lpt" "psm" "FD" "bpf" "sio"
"tun" "pci" "ppi" "md" "xpt" "kbd" "acd" "asr" "ata" "iir" "MFS"
then the "Manual root filesystem specification:" message
I can install 4.4 no problem, but when I cvsup and compile a -stable kernel, I
get the above error message upon boot.
The machine is a fairly old Gateway Pentium 100-mHz box with two (fairly old/
small) Western Digital hard drives in it - a 2-gig and a 4-gig, I believe. I'm
not sure what changes would have been made or why -stable/4.6 don't like my
system.
Any ideas?
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Russell Rice rrice@molecomputers.com
The world'll be taken over by kudzu!!
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