From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 5 20:17:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA14930 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 20:17:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA14920 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 20:17:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA01921; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 20:22:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810060322.UAA01921@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Edwin Culp cc: Gilad Rom , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with 3-stage bootloader In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 18:50:55 CDT." <36195B5F.785D71A2@webwizard.org.mx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:22:35 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message