Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:25:29 -0400 From: Lisa Besko <besko@msu.edu> To: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swapping boot disks and getting mountroot> Message-ID: <489B05D9.7030407@msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <84dead720808061904v398ff7cdieaeca41ed7a8207e@mail.gmail.com> References: <4899E3AC.40201@msu.edu> <84dead720808061904v398ff7cdieaeca41ed7a8207e@mail.gmail.com>
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Joseph Koshy wrote: >> I notice that it finds the device ad4 but then it tries to mount root from >> /dev/ad6s1a. I've edited the fstab to have it look for ad4s1a but it still >> won't boot. Anyone have any pointers or ideas? > > Have you tried interrupting the boot sequence and setting new > values for the `rootdev' and `root_disk_unit' loader variables? > The loader(8) manual page has more information. No I haven't tried that yet. Will that get me to a point where I can trust it to boot on it's own to the correct disk all the time? LB -- Lisa Besko
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