From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 18:30:29 2003 Return-Path: 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 BB23016A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:30:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F39BA44008 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:30:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E5C7F72DA3; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:30:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E36AF72DA2; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:30:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:30:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: a-hobbs@sbcglobal.net In-Reply-To: <005501c386a1$d4ceb8c0$6501a8c0@Buster> Message-ID: <20031001183008.H74468@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <005501c386a1$d4ceb8c0$6501a8c0@Buster> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ROOTVP X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 01:30:29 -0000 On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 a-hobbs@sbcglobal.net wrote: > >During the boot process, if I press the spacebar to abort loading of the > >kernel, I can do an ls and see the files on the drive. As soon as the kernel > >tries to mount root , I get this: > > > >Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > >setrootbyname failed > >ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp > >Root mount failed: 6 > > > >Any ideas? > > I am running 5.1 I resent this because they where errors in my mesage .. Your disk device? If you have an IDE disk you need the ata* devices. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org