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Date:      Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:22:35 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx>
Cc:        Gilad Rom <rom_glsa@ein-hashofet.co.il>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with 3-stage bootloader 
Message-ID:  <199810060322.UAA01921@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 18:50:55 CDT." <36195B5F.785D71A2@webwizard.org.mx> 

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> Gilad Rom wrote:
> >
> > When I type "load disk1c:/kernel" from the command line it loads the
> > kernel,
> > then I type "boot" and it appears to boot fine,  filesystem checks OK,
> > but I get the infamous "mount: /dev/wd0s2a on /: specifed device does
> > not
> > match mounted device" when trying to mount the root device.
> > (from then, It just boots single user with the root filesystem read
> > only).
> 
> I changed my fstab back to /dev/wd0a from /dev/wd0s1a and everything works

Don't do that.  Boot from the correct device, ie. if your root device 
is wd0s1a, boot from disk0s1a.  I'll have to add code to cause this old 
syntax to break, I see.

> If not I couldn't get dmesg, netstat, top, etc to work.  Your kernel is
> thought to be /disk1c:kernel.

That's definitely a bug.

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