From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 5 23:16:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA13249 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 23:16:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles100.castles.com [208.214.165.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA13178 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 23:15:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00740; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 23:21:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810060621.XAA00740@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Gilad Rom cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with 3-stage bootloader In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 22:23:52 -0000." <361946F8.86389BA9@ein-hashofet.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 23:21:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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". -- \\ 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