Date: 13 May 2003 23:37:38 -0500 From: Teilhard Knight <teilhk@Phreaker.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The last push Message-ID: <1052887057.11481.66.camel@arlette.love.dad> In-Reply-To: <1052885537.11481.51.camel@arlette.love.dad> References: <20030514111328.O69707-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> <1052885537.11481.51.camel@arlette.love.dad>
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On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 23:12, Teilhard Knight wrote: > On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 20:31, Andy Farkas wrote: > > On 13 May 2003, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > > It displays: "mounting root from ufs:ad2s2a", and a failure message. > > > then. it goes: "mounting root from ufs:da0s2e", and another failure > > > message (no such device "da"). This last attempt I think is done because > > > I added the line: > > > options ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:da0s2e\", which LINT gives for when the > > > root device cannot correctly guessed by the bootstrap code. > > > > You shouldn't have "options ROOTDEVNAME", you don't need it, and its > > actually causing problems in this case. > > > > > Yes, I figured that up myself, and I erased it already. > > > > > > > Now, I am left at boot with an inquire for a manual root filesystem > > > specification., like this: > > > > > > <fstype><device> mount <device> using filesystem <fstype> > > > > > > eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a > > > > > > ? List valid disk boot devices > > > > > > <empty line> abort manual imput > > > > > > mountroot> > > > > > > > > > What to do now? > > > > Did you try '?' to "List valid disk boot devices"? > > > > > No, I haven't. I will now. Oh, I lie, of course I have tried that. It lists a set of devices like "mem" and many otjers I do not understand, but seems to me that are devices like floppy, cd, etc. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich?
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