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Date:      Sat, 5 Apr 1997 01:49:16 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
To:        bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca (Antonio Bemfica)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ufs filesystem not available at mount time ...
Message-ID:  <199704042349.BAA27949@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970404170738.344A-100000@militzer.me.tuns.ca> from Antonio Bemfica at "Apr 4, 97 05:19:14 pm"

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> 
> A week or so back someone posted a message refering to a problem with
> mount at boot time. The same problem is happening to my -current box after
> a 'make world' (I didn't have a chance of building a new kernel...):
> 
> mount: ufs filesystem is not available
[...]
> is mounted at /mnt2.  Should I mount /dev/rsd0a (my "/" ) onto / or onto
> /mnt, or some such thing? I tried some combinations, but never got access
> to the fixed drive (mount complains it needs a "block device" or something
> like that). 

Well, so give it  a block device, i. e. /dev/sd0a (w/o the "r" for raw device)

You have to specify the raw-device to all programs that want a disk device.
(like newfs, disklabel ...)
With one exception: mount. 

Wolfgang



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