From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 22 11:23:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12881 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 11:23:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12876 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 11:23:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA00827; Fri, 22 May 1998 10:18:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805221718.KAA00827@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Wes Peters cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird disk problems, need help. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 22 May 1998 00:13:19 MDT." <3565177F.445ADBD4@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 10:18:16 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message