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Date:      Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:45:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ying-Chieh Liao <ijliao@dragon2.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How can I boot from wd0s2a ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904201244360.1514-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990417031334.A621@terry.dragon2.net>

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On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Ying-Chieh Liao wrote:

> I have 2 IDE hds, wd0 and wd1, and I don't have any SCSI devices
> There's 2 slices on wd0, wd0s1 & wd0s2
> My boot device is wd0s2a, and I've written
> 
> config		kernel	root on wd0s2a
> 
> in my kernel config file
> But I still can't boot from wd0s2a :<
> When I boot up, after devices probed, it said that it can't mount root on wd0a
> It's strange, because I've written this in /boot/loader.conf.local
> 
> rootdev="disk1s2a"
> 
> How can I solve this problem ?

Please describe your disk configuration.  I suggest probing the mail
archives at http://www.freebsd.org/search for info; try checking questions
and current.

> ps. Now I can boot from 3/31 kernel
> 
> -r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  -    1231985 ¡@3/31 16:32 kernel.bak*
> 
> but I can't boot from 4/16 kernel
> 
> -r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  schg 2222523 ¡@4/17 01:54 kernel*
> 
> Their kernel config file is the same one !!

Versions?

Doug White                               
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