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Date:      Fri, 22 May 1998 10:18:16 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Weird disk problems, need help. 
Message-ID:  <199805221718.KAA00827@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 May 1998 00:13:19 MDT." <3565177F.445ADBD4@softweyr.com> 

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> Mike Smith wrote:
> > 
> > > /dev/sd0s1a on /: specified device does not match mounted device
> > > Filesystem mount failed, startup aborted.
> > >
> > > WTF?  Any help, or should I just clean the system and start over?
> > 
> > Check you don't have "on generic" on the 'kernel' line in your config.
> 
> Nope.  Originally it was "on sd0", and when the GENERIC kernel would
> boot but not my custom one, I went back and added wdc0, wd0, and wd1
> and changed the config line to "on wd0" just for grins.  Still no
> joy.  I guess I'll have to drag a DAT drive home from work, backup
> the entire system, and re-install.  I wonder if something happened
> to my partition table, but that doesn't explain why GENERIC will boot
> and my custom kernel won't -- I reinstalled the entire ssys distribution
> from CD-ROM before building the last several kernels.

Try building a GENERIC yourself.  I still have to suspect that you've 
borked something - there's nothing special about the installed GENERIC 
at all.

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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