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Date:      Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:08:45 -0500
From:      Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>
To:        Florian Nigsch <flo@ganymed.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with 3.0-STABLE
Message-ID:  <19990126130845.A25898@palomine.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19990126172513.006a5c8c@triton>; from Florian Nigsch on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 05:25:14PM %2B0100
References:  <3.0.32.19990126172513.006a5c8c@triton>

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See http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=436578783. The initial response and
followup should help you get things going again.

Chris

On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 05:25:14PM +0100, Florian Nigsch wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have a little problem with my FreeBSD installation:
> 
> I've cvsupped the "new" 3.0-STABLE sources of about 24th of January and did
> a "make aout-to-elf" which finished successfully.
> I updated /dev and /etc and installed the new bootblocks successfully, as
> well.
> 
> 	disklabel -B sd0
> 
> Then I rebooted the system and got the following prompt:
> 
> <prompt starts here>
> 
> 	[...]
> 	Default: F2
> 	
> 	BTX loader 1.00  BTX version is 1.00
> 	Console: internal video/keyboard
> 	BIOS drive A: is disk0
> 	BIOS drive C: is disk1
> 
> 	FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.2 639/64448kB
> 	(root@stone.ganymed.org, Sun Jan 24 22:51:21 CET 1999)
> 
> 	Hit [Enter] to [...]
> 
> 	[... various bootup messages ...]
> 	swapon: adding /dev/da0s2b as swap device
> 	Automatic reboot in progress...
> 	/dev/rda0s2a: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
> 	/dev/rda0s2a: clean, 11037 free [...]
> 
> 	[... other messages ...]
> 	mount: /dev/da0s2a on /: specified device does not match mounted device
> 	Filesystem mount failed, startup aborted
> 	Enter full pathname of shell [...]
> 
> </prompt ends here>
> 
> What is that? 
> First, the bootloader shows the BTX stuff, not ">> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT" (as
> on http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html). I don't now if this is
> correct, but I have another 3.0-CURRENT machine with the latter mentioned
> prompt.
> Secondly, why can't my system remount the root device?
> 
> Any help on this problem would be very kind!
> 
> Please write to me directly, since I am not subscribed to the list.
> 
> thanks in advance,
> 	Flo
> 
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