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Date:      Mon, 05 Oct 1998 23:21:05 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Gilad Rom <rom_glsa@ein-hashofet.co.il>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with 3-stage bootloader 
Message-ID:  <199810060621.XAA00740@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 22:23:52 -0000." <361946F8.86389BA9@ein-hashofet.co.il> 

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> the new bootloader showed up, telling me about drive 0/drive1 and some
> more BIOs information, when suddenly I got this message:
> 
> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader....
> 
> (lickyou@pentium, Mon Oct 5 20:21:30 GMT 1998)
> Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
> Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk
> 0:

This is a problem related to the preservation of the boot device 
information; on some machines it was being shot off into space.  I've 
just committed a fix.

> 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.

I can't imagine why you are trying to boot from "disk1c" when your root 
device is obviously "disk1s2c". 

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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