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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 1995 08:00:54 +0300
From:      Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To:        Yen-Wei Liu <ywliu@lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw>
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Fail to mount root after recompiling kernel
Message-ID:  <199507190500.IAA05612@silver.sms.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199507190305.UAA20654@mail.barrnet.net>
References:  <199507180855.SAA05275@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199507190305.UAA20654@mail.barrnet.net>

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Yen-Wei Liu writes:

 > Yes and no. The boot manager selects sd(1,a) itself automatically. When
 > trying to mount sd1a as the root, it simply panics for failing to mount
 > root. 
 > 
 > I didn't touch the boot manager (i.e. the [[wd(xvxc)]/kernel][-asdfadf] 
 > selection screen) after finishing installation, unless compiling kernel
 > would change it.
 > 
We've seen the system also fail on situation where the root partition
is on wd2a on machine where there is IDE-disk wd0a(DOS), IDE-CD on wd1a and
second IDE-disk on wd2a. It tries to use wd1a for root and panics.

The board is Plato III.

Pete



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