Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 19:19:07 +0100 (MEZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 2.1.5-R kernel root on sd0 fails Message-ID: <199612121819.AA221754747@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>
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Hi all, I know that 2.1.5 is last year's snow, but: I had a happy installation with one SCSI disk and then had to add a wd0--don't ask why. Subsequently I went to generate a new kernel in order to be able to boot from sd0 without manual keyboard intervention every time. I added kernel root on sd0 swap on sd0 to the config file, re-ran config and had a panic: cannot set sd1 root device. Whatever I tried (I did not delve into config source, though) I could not persuade the kernel to set root to sd0. I did manage it afterwards by hardcoding makedev(4,0) in autoconfig.c and swapgeneric.c as the rootdev, but this is not exactly the solution I sought for. What was I doing wrong? How is config supposed to alter the files in order to enforce "root on ..."? Is it, perhaps, a bug? /Marino
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