Date: 13 May 2003 23:15:42 -0500 From: Teilhard Knight <teilhk@Phreaker.net> To: Gary Schenk <gwschenk@socal.rr.com>, Newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Root mounting Message-ID: <1052885742.11481.54.camel@arlette.love.dad> In-Reply-To: <200305131637.28067.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> References: <1052866503.11481.3.camel@arlette.love.dad> <200305131637.28067.gwschenk@socal.rr.com>
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On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 18:37, Gary Schenk wrote: > On Tuesday 13 May 2003 03:55 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > I just subscribed to the list. I am running release 4.8. > > I have compiled my kernel. Everything seems to be all right, > > except that on boot it cannot mount root. > > > > It displays: "mounting root from ufs:ad2s2a", and a failure message. > > then. it goes: "mounting root from ufs:da0s2e", and another failure > > message (no such device "da"). This last attempt I think is done > > because I added the line: > > options ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:da0s2e\", which LINT gives for when the > > root device cannot correctly guessed by the bootstrap code. > > > > Now, I am left at boot with an inquire for a manual root filesystem > > specification., like this: > > > > <fstype><device> mount <device> using filesystem <fstype> > > > > eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a > > > > ? List valid disk boot devices > > > > <empty line> abort manual imput > > > > mountroot> > > > > > > What to do now? I haven't been able to guess the right input, and I > > haven't been able to fix the kernel. I have erased all filesystem > > types from my configuration, except FFS. > > > > > > Last thing to note. In my previous kernel, the HD where I have > > FreeBDS installed was ad2, in this new kernel, it is ad1. > > > > Cheers. > > > > > > Teilhard Knight > > The Extraterrestrial > > > > Who ate my sandwich? > > > > What you should do now is send this into the questions mailing list. > they are helpful and knowledgeable over there. I have done so. I just thought it would be a good idea to post it here too. Thanks- Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich?
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