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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:37:53 +1000
To: Russell Rice <the-mole@attbi.com>, FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.org
From: "J.'LoneWolf' Mattsson" <lonewolf@earthmagic.org>
Subject: Re: setrootbyname error upon install/upgrade
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At 06:18 27/09/2002 -0400, Russell Rice wrote:
>I have what appears to be a strange dilemma.
>
>Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
>no such device 'ad'

It would seem to me that it's not detecting your IDE disk properly. Do you 
see it in the boot messages (ad0)? If not, do you see the IDE controller 
there (ata0)? Perhaps a verbose boot (boot -v) would give you some more 
details on what mischief is going on here.

Cheers,
/Johny

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