From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 27 3:18:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90CC937B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 03:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rodents.dyndns.org (c-24-98-97-88.atl.client2.attbi.com [24.98.97.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA4943E42 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 03:18:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mole@rodents.dyndns.org) Received: (from mole@localhost) by rodents.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g8RAIBE00352 for FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 06:18:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mole) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 06:18:11 -0400 From: Russell Rice To: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: setrootbyname error upon install/upgrade Message-ID: <20020927101811.GA270@gopher.molecomputers.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have what appears to be a strange dilemma. I attempt to install 4.6 and upon first-boot, I get the following: ppi0: on ppbus0 acd0: CDROM 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: : Mount using filesystem eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices 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? -- Russell Rice rrice@molecomputers.com The world'll be taken over by kudzu!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message