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Date:      Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:11:09 -0300 (ADT)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        a-hobbs@sbcglobal.net
Subject:   Re: ROOTVP 
Message-ID:  <20031001230732.R94686@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031001183008.H74468@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <005501c386a1$d4ceb8c0$6501a8c0@Buster> <20031001183008.H74468@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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actually, I got this tonight ... installed 5.1-RELEASE, built a new kernel
after CVSUP'ng to todays source with, I believe, all the right ata
devices, rebooted and it failed with below ...

I'm goin to try to build a GENERIC kernel tomorrow, to see if its my
kernle config, but here's what I'm running with right now ... am I missing
something obvious?

machine         i386
cpu             I586_CPU
ident           MORPHEUS
options         SCHED_4BSD              #4BSD scheduler
options         INET                    #InterNETworking
options         FFS                     #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options         SOFTUPDATES             #Enable FFS soft updates support
options         UFS_ACL                 #Support for access control lists
options         UFS_DIRHASH             #Improve performance on big directories
options         PROCFS                  #Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS)
options         PSEUDOFS                #Pseudo-filesystem framework
options         COMPAT_43               #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
options         KTRACE                  #ktrace(1) support
options         SYSVSHM                 #SYSV-style shared memory
options         SYSVMSG                 #SYSV-style message queues
options         SYSVSEM                 #SYSV-style semaphores
options         _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions
options         KBD_INSTALL_CDEV        # install a CDEV entry in /dev
device          isa
device          pci
device          fdc
device          ata
device          atadisk                 # ATA disk drives
device          atapicd                 # ATAPI CDROM drives
device          atkbdc          # AT keyboard controller
device          atkbd           # AT keyboard
device          psm             # PS/2 mouse
device          vga             # VGA video card driver
device          splash          # Splash screen and screen saver support
device          sc
device          agp             # support several AGP chipsets
device          npx
device          miibus          # MII bus support
device          fxp             # Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558)
device          random          # Entropy device
device          loop            # Network loopback
device          ether           # Ethernet support
device          pty             # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
device          bpf             # Berkeley packet filter
device          pcm             # For PnP/PCI sound cards



On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Doug White wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
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