From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 9 20:37:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04862 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 20:37:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shadow.worldbank.org (shadow.worldbank.org [138.220.104.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04849 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 20:37:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adhir@worldbank.org) Received: from localhost (adhir@localhost) by shadow.worldbank.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA02107; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 22:49:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from adhir@worldbank.org) X-Authentication-Warning: shadow.worldbank.org: adhir owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 22:49:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Alok K. Dhir" To: ade@lovett.com cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minor root device oddity In-Reply-To: <286DB07EE20512FD852565C300134F72.00122E78852565C3@worldbank.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: > > The data for partition 3 is: > > The data for partition 4 is: > > > /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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- \||/_ Alok K. Dhir Phone: +1.202.473.2446 oo \ R7-003, ITSMC Email: adhir@worldbank.org L_ The World Bank Group Washington, DC \/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------| "Unix _is_ user friendly - it just chooses friends selectively..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message