From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 20 14:33:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles505.castles.com [208.214.165.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0E2114DB6 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 14:33:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00694; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:42:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199911191842.KAA00694@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: S ren Schmidt Cc: sobomax@altavista.net, sheldonh@uunet.co.za (Sheldon Hearn), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NewATA on ISA and PCI In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:40:05 +0100." <199911191140.MAA01765@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:42:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Does anybody can explain why kernel with NewATA driver booted on = machine > > > > with ISA based IDE adapter trying to mount wd* as root f/s, while= > > > > exactly *the same* kernel booted on PCI based mobo mounts ad* as = root? > > > > > > /etc/fstab ? > > = > > No, I do not talking about /etc/fstab, I'm talking about what device = kernel is > > using to mount root *before* starting /sbin/init (e.g. "changing root= device to > > ..." in dmesg). > = > Hmm, the bootblock or the loader might be responsible.... This is -current. If the message is "changing root device to..." you = are out of date and must update before we can help you. The root mount code has changed quite a lot just recently, and = debugging the 'old' code isn't practical anymore. -- = \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message