From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 5 23:54:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA18181 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 23:54:45 -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 XAA18172 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 23:54:41 -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 XAA00981; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 23:59:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810060659.XAA00981@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Smith cc: Gilad Rom , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with 3-stage bootloader In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 23:21:05 PDT." <199810060621.XAA00740@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 23:59:26 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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". ^^^^^^^^ disk1s2a -- \\ 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