Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:12:00 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> Cc: ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: FFS_ROOT is gone? Message-ID: <3F14DEA0.8010209@acm.org> References: <GHEOJEPHNBOPAMKOBHNIIELPCEAA.h@schmalzbauer.de>
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Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Let's see what Tim can contribute to this topic, since he also claimed to > have problems with "mountroot>" I installed FreeBSD (I think it was 5.0-RELEASE) on a hard disk attached to ad0. It worked, I tested it. I reconnected the hard disk to a separate IDE controller as ad4. The kernel booted, failed to mount root (as expected), and presented a "mountroot>" prompt. If I typed something invalid, the system rebooted. If I typed something valid, I got a "mountroot>" prompt again. In short, nothing I did would coerce the kernel into actually mounting root. Finally, I put the disk back on ad0, edited /etc/fstab and moved it back to ad4. That worked just fine. In short, "mountroot>" seems to do nothing if the kernel's initial attempt fails. Tim
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