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Date:      Fri, 3 Oct 2003 11:38:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        a-hobbs@sbcglobal.net
Subject:   Re: ROOTVP 
Message-ID:  <20031003113808.D92035@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031001230732.R94686@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <005501c386a1$d4ceb8c0$6501a8c0@Buster> <20031001183008.H74468@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20031001230732.R94686@ganymede.hub.org>

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On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> actually, I got this tonight ... installed 5.1-RELEASE, built a new kernel
> after CVSUP'ng to todays source with, I believe, all the right ata
> devices, rebooted and it failed with below ...

boot -v output is required...

>
> I'm goin to try to build a GENERIC kernel tomorrow, to see if its my
> kernle config, but here's what I'm running with right now ... am I missing
> something obvious?
>
> machine         i386
> cpu             I586_CPU
> ident           MORPHEUS
> options         SCHED_4BSD              #4BSD scheduler
> options         INET                    #InterNETworking
> options         FFS                     #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
> options         SOFTUPDATES             #Enable FFS soft updates support
> options         UFS_ACL                 #Support for access control lists
> options         UFS_DIRHASH             #Improve performance on big directories
> options         PROCFS                  #Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS)
> options         PSEUDOFS                #Pseudo-filesystem framework
> options         COMPAT_43               #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
> options         KTRACE                  #ktrace(1) support
> options         SYSVSHM                 #SYSV-style shared memory
> options         SYSVMSG                 #SYSV-style message queues
> options         SYSVSEM                 #SYSV-style semaphores
> options         _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions
> options         KBD_INSTALL_CDEV        # install a CDEV entry in /dev
> device          isa
> device          pci
> device          fdc
> device          ata
> device          atadisk                 # ATA disk drives
> device          atapicd                 # ATAPI CDROM drives
> device          atkbdc          # AT keyboard controller
> device          atkbd           # AT keyboard
> device          psm             # PS/2 mouse
> device          vga             # VGA video card driver
> device          splash          # Splash screen and screen saver support
> device          sc
> device          agp             # support several AGP chipsets
> device          npx
> device          miibus          # MII bus support
> device          fxp             # Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558)
> device          random          # Entropy device
> device          loop            # Network loopback
> device          ether           # Ethernet support
> device          pty             # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
> device          bpf             # Berkeley packet filter
> device          pcm             # For PnP/PCI sound cards
>
>
>
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Doug White wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 a-hobbs@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> >
> > > >During the boot process, if I press the spacebar to abort loading of the
> > > >kernel, I can do an ls and see the files on the drive. As soon as the kernel
> > > >tries to mount root , I get this:
> > > >
> > > >Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> > > >setrootbyname failed
> > > >ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
> > > >Root mount failed: 6
> > > >
> > > >Any ideas?
> > >
> > > I am running 5.1  I resent this because they where errors in my mesage ..
> >
> > Your disk device?  If you have an IDE disk you need the ata* devices.
> >
> > --
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>

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Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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