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Date:      Mon, 9 Mar 1998 22:49:30 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Alok K. Dhir" <adhir@worldbank.org>
To:        ade@lovett.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Minor root device oddity
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.980309224744.2105A-100000@shadow.worldbank.org>
In-Reply-To: <286DB07EE20512FD852565C300134F72.00122E78852565C3@worldbank.org>

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Similarly, my machine, whose root file system is on sd0s2a, claims
"changing root device to sd0s3a" during boot.  I suspect someone's code is
simply off by 1...

Machine works fine, and "mount" correctly reflects the mounted partition.

My machine was also built today...

Al

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998 ade@lovett.com wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> After a power failure (long story, don't ask :), I ended up having to
> rebuild my -current box this evening - last cvsup was at 0300 CST 03/09
> 
> On bootup, I see:
> 
>         ...
>         changing root device to wd0s2a
>         ...
> 
> Which is kinda odd, since I don't actually have a slice 2 :)
> 
>         gorgon # fdisk wd0
>         ...
>         The data for partition 1 is:
>         sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>         ...
>         The data for partition 2 is:
>         <UNUSED>
>         The data for partition 3 is:
>         <UNUSED>
>         The data for partition 4 is:
>         <UNUSED>
> 
> /etc/fstab references (correctly) wd0s1[ab] for mondo-large partition
> and swap respectively, and the system appears to be working fine..
> 
>         gorgon # df
>         Filesystem   1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>         /dev/wd0s1a    6376860   331579  5535133     6%    /
>         procfs               4        4        0   100%    /proc
>         ...
> 
> So why is there this boot message reference to slice 2?
> 
> Confused.
>         -aDe
> 
> --
> Ade Lovett.
> 
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