Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 12:40:58 +0200 From: "Gabor PALI" <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/123974: [patch] Fix Markups in FAQ, Question 3.23 Message-ID: <4839423b.0637560a.7d05.ffff81a0@mx.google.com> Resent-Message-ID: <200805251050.m4PAo2ZI026155@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 123974
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] Fix Markups in FAQ, Question 3.23
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun May 25 10:50:02 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Gabor PALI
>Release: FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD disznohal 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #4: Fri Apr 4 23:29:43 CEST 2008 dezzy@disznohal:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC_ i386
>Description:
Some markups are missing or misused in the FreeBSD FAQ, Question
3.23. ``Why do I get a "panic: can't mount root" error when rebooting
the system after installation?''. I send you a small patch to fix
them.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- books.faq.patch.11.diff begins here ---
Index: book.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.811
diff -u -r1.811 book.sgml
--- book.sgml 12 Apr 2008 20:13:12 -0000 1.811
+++ book.sgml 25 May 2008 08:21:58 -0000
@@ -1888,11 +1888,11 @@
systems, with the hard disks arranged as the master or
single device on separate IDE controllers, with FreeBSD
installed on the secondary IDE controller. The boot blocks
- think the system is installed on ad0 (the second BIOS
+ think the system is installed on <devicename>ad0</devicename> (the second BIOS
disk) while the kernel assigns the first disk on the
- secondary controller device, ad2. After the device
+ secondary controller device, <devicename>ad2</devicename>. After the device
probing, the kernel tries to mount what the boot blocks
- think is the boot disk, ad0, while it is really ad2, and
+ think is the boot disk, <devicename>ad0</devicename>, while it is really <devicename>ad2</devicename>, and
fails.</para>
<para>To fix the problem, do one of the following:</para>
@@ -1905,10 +1905,10 @@
drop you into the boot loader.</para>
<para>Then type
- <literal>
+ <userinput>
set
root_disk_unit="<replaceable>disk_number</replaceable>"
- </literal>. <replaceable>disk_number</replaceable>
+ </userinput>. <replaceable>disk_number</replaceable>
will be <literal>0</literal> if FreeBSD is installed
on the master drive on the first IDE controller,
<literal>1</literal> if it is installed on the slave
@@ -1918,13 +1918,13 @@
installed on the slave of the second IDE
controller.</para>
- <para>Then type <literal>boot</literal>, and your
+ <para>Then type <userinput>boot</userinput>, and your
system should boot correctly.</para>
<para>To make this change permanent (i.e, so you do not
have to do this every time you reboot or turn on
- your FreeBSD machine), put the line <literal>
- root_disk_unit="<replaceable>disk_number</replaceable>"</literal>
+ your FreeBSD machine), put the line <userinput>
+ root_disk_unit="<replaceable>disk_number</replaceable>"</userinput>
in <filename>/boot/loader.conf.local
</filename>.</para>
</listitem>
--- books.faq.patch.11.diff ends here ---
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