Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 20:37:43 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss@subatomix.com> To: freebsd-small <freebsd-small@freebsd.org> Subject: (Probably a) dumb question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005171955500.2925-100000@lepton.subatomix.com>
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I'm progressing well on the documentation for TinyBSD. However, testing everything out was presenting a problem to me today. To the best of my knowledge, I've got everything set up right. I've got an embedded PC with an 8MB DiskOnChip, sliced and partitioned correctly. I've got boot1 and boot2 from 4.0-RELEASE loading a kgzipped kernel compiled from 4.0-STABLE sources. I've got all the required files (including fstab). The kernel loads just fine off of the DOC. Despite this, the kernel keeps trying to mount ad0s1a as root. I did have a hard drive attached with a different root filesystem on ad0s1a, so I removed the hard drive. Now the kernel just drops into manual root device selection mode. So the basic problem is that the kernel isn't choosing fla0s1a as the root device. Just to make sure, then, is my dumb question: in 4.0-STABLE, how does the kernel decide what device to use for the root filesystem? Thanks for bearing with me. :) =============================== Jeffrey S. Sharp (XorAxAx) jss@subatomix.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.12 GCS/IT/MU d-@ s-:+ a21 C++(++++) UBL+(+++$)> P L+(+++$)> E+> W++ N+(++) o? K? w++$> !O M(-) !V PS+ PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+ R(+) tv+ b+ DI++(+++) G++ e> h--- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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