Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 21:56:19 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@muc.de> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the new config and booting Message-ID: <1723.926452579@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 May 1999 21:39:42 %2B0200." <199905111939.VAA02675@peedub.muc.de>
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In message <199905111939.VAA02675@peedub.muc.de>, Gary Jennejohn writes: >I switched to the new config(8) today, where the ``config kernel root on..'' >line is no longer tolerated in the config file. > >I now have to ``boot -r'' to avoid a `can't mount root' panic. This wasn't >necessary before. > >I know I can probably put something into /boot/<mumble> to automate this. >Just thought I'd report my (negative) experience. What's your config ? It sounds like the boot code isn't telling the kernel the right thing... I belive it picks the bootmajor from the type field in the disklabel. (right Mike ?) So do you have a IDE/ATA disk labeled as SCSI by any chance ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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