From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 16 18:33:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marcy.nas.nasa.gov (marcy.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.113.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3D5B37B493 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:33:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (lamaster@localhost) by marcy.nas.nasa.gov (8.9.3/NAS8.8.7n) with ESMTP id SAA02891 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:33:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:33:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Hugh LaMaster Reply-To: lamaster@nas.nasa.gov To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Failure to mount root filesystem after building new kernel Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Following my previous custom, I did the following: I upgraded to 4.1-RELEASE, installed 4.1 RELEASE GENERIC kernel, but, have trouble running a newly built kernel, including GENERIC, so: - CVsup the 4.1 stable source tree, - cd to /usr/src - "make buildworld" - no problems - "make installworld" - no problems - reboot, old kernel works fine, (of course, can't "ps" etc.) - cd to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf - config new GENERIC kernel, make depend, make, make install, reboot Then, new GENERIC kernel can't mount root filesystem, boot process hangs, I unload new GENERIC kernel, load old kernel, and life goes on. So, I must be forgetting some step or don't know about some new step. I'm running a GENERIC kernel that the release process built, why can't I build and run a GENERIC kernel that I built? What am I forgetting? A few system specifics: SuperMicro motherboard, 400 MHz P II, Buslogic SCSI controller, IBM SCSI disks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message