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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