From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 29 08:50:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B2A316A4BF for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:50:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp805.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp805.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6912A43FA3 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:49:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a-hobbs@sbcglobal.net) Received: from adsl-68-75-105-47.dsl.toldoh.ameritech.net (HELO Buster) (a-hobbs@sbcglobal.net@68.75.105.47 with login) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Sep 2003 15:49:58 -0000 Message-ID: <004801c386a1$5304b560$6501a8c0@Buster> From: To: Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:49:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: rootvp won't boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:50:01 -0000 >During the boot process, if I press the spacebar to abort loading of = the >kernel, I can do an ls and see the files on the drive. As soon as the = kernel >tries to mount root , I get this: > >Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a >no such device 'da' >setrootbyname failed >ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp >Root mount failed: 6 > >Any ideas?