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Date:      Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:29:47 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        geoffr@is.co.za, brian@pobox.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATA - Trouble mounting secondary master
Message-ID:  <199908211029.MAA44285@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <199908120301.UAA00649@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Aug 11, 1999  8: 1:33 pm"

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It seems Mike Smith wrote:
> > Our boot blocks/loader dont have the needed computrons to use the
> > "ad" device name. However I have some patches to boot2 that allows
> > to boot off an ad root device, provided you dont use the loader, and
> > put the rigth boot string in boot.config.
> 
> This should now be totally redundant as long as your /etc/fstab entry 
> is correct.

Define "correct" then please, it doesn't work for my definition...

-Current as of aug 21th...

If I have this in my fstab:

/dev/ad0a		/		ufs	rw		1	1
/dev/ad0f		/usr		ufs	rw		2	2
/dev/ad0e		/var		ufs	rw		2	2

And have NO wd* entries in /dev, it says on boot:

Changing root device to wd0s1a
Changing root device to wd0a
...
mount: /dev/ad0a on / special device does not match mounted device.

Bummer!

If however I have a /dev/wd0a it will mount that and show that in
a mount/df command, but then it doesn't fit what it is written in
/etc/fstab and that is bogus too...

So I still stick with my statement that the -current bootblocks/loader
doesn't have the computrons needed to use the ad device (or any non
wd/da/fd device for that matter) for anything usefull :)

-Søren


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