From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 17 15:35: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fed-ef1.frb.gov (fed.frb.gov [132.200.32.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA7F14FD4 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 15:35:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org) Received: by fed-ef1.frb.gov; id SAA24669; Mon, 17 May 1999 18:35:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m1pmdf.frb.gov(192.168.3.38) by fed.frb.gov via smap (V4.2) id xma024611; Mon, 17 May 99 18:34:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 18:34:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Seth Subject: Re: 3.1-stable to 3.2-stable weirdness In-reply-to: To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry to follow up (I've deleted the dmesg output), but I thought I'd share this info: The Adaptec 7890 is not being detected with the new kernel. That's the issue. (The 7890 is on the motherboard.) Both HD's are on the 7890; the CD and the tape are on the 7880 (which IS being recognized as ahc0 -- ahc0 is supposed to be the 7890.) SB On Mon, 17 May 1999, Seth wrote: > OK, it's probably my fault, but I finally did a build/installworld to > 3.2-STABLE (as of ctm 142). Everything went great, and I compiled a new > kernel. > > The kernel won't boot. I get the following: > > changing root device to da0s1a > changing root device to da0a > error 6: panic: cannot mount root (2) > > and drop into the debugger. > > The old (3.1-stable) kernel works fine and can mount root. > > I DID mess around w/ /dev... did sh MAKEDEV all per the instructions, > doing the ls | awk business before and after. There were no major > differences. > > Please let me know what other information to include (I've attached > dmesg from the successful -- 3.1-stable -- boot). Notice that it > successfully changes the root device to da0s1a. > > > Thanks for any help. > > SB > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message