Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:34:52 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom) Cc: ian@gamespot.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm burning... Message-ID: <199806261534.JAA21300@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980625161240.24579N-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> from Tom at "Jun 25, 98 04:13:44 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Tom wrote...
>
> > error 6: panic: cannot mount root
> >
> > If I floppy boot and fsck it, there's no complaints. I can mount it
> > when I'm floppy booted. What horrible step did I omit when I did this
> > installation?
>
> Most likely /etc/fstab is wrong. Device names have changed a bit with
> CAM, so the root device is probably /dev/da0s1a (or something similar).
Device names have changed with CAM, but a common misconception is
that you *have* to change the entries in /etc/fstab. That isn't true.
This is from my primary CAM development box:
{roadwarrior:/usr/home/ken:4:0} df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0s2a 63503 52742 5681 90% /
devfs 16 16 0 100% dummy_mount
/dev/sd0s2e 198399 25991 156537 14% /var
/dev/sd0s2f 3290562 2971125 56193 98% /usr
/dev/sd1s1a 4304834 3131673 828775 79% /a
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
The only device names that have changed are sd (now da) and st (now
sa). Since the major and minor numbers are the same, you don't have to
change your fstab at all.
Ken
--
Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199806261534.JAA21300>