From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 14:25:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B926A1065679 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:25:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from besko@msu.edu) Received: from sys14.mail.msu.edu (sys14.mail.msu.edu [35.9.75.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 950058FC18 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:25:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from besko@msu.edu) Received: from user-718268.user.msu.edu ([35.10.4.118]) by sys14.mail.msu.edu with esmtpsa (Exim 4.63 #1) (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) id 1KR6Qj-0003fK-Vr; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:25:30 -0400 Message-ID: <489B05D9.7030407@msu.edu> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:25:29 -0400 From: Lisa Besko User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080613) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Koshy References: <4899E3AC.40201@msu.edu> <84dead720808061904v398ff7cdieaeca41ed7a8207e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <84dead720808061904v398ff7cdieaeca41ed7a8207e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus: None found by Clam AV Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swapping boot disks and getting mountroot> X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: besko@msu.edu List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:25:30 -0000 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