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Date:      Sun, 08 Mar 1998 21:41:57 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Latest -current kernel panics on boot 
Message-ID:  <199803090541.VAA13322@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Mar 1998 16:03:16 %2B1030." <19980309160316.00609@freebie.lemis.com> 

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> I've just (finally been able to) build and boot a new kernel, but I
> don't get as far as mounting the root file system.  I get a fatal page
> fault in ufs_ihashget when the swapper tries to mount /dev/wds02a
> (yup, that's right, and I don't know where it gets it from).  It's
> before the swap partition gets mounted, so I don't have a dump.  I
> wrote down a trace, but I'm assuming that we don't need that level of
> detail, so I won't type it in unless somebody wants it.

What does the 'config' line in your kernel look like?  It's possible 
that some of the static configuration code can't deal with the slice 
number in the minor.

> Since Mike Smith sent some information about changing /etc/fstab round
> this morning, I changed my fstab entry from

Have you rebuilt/reinstalled /sbin/mount?

> This doesn't seem to be problem, though: it doesn't work either way.
> The old kernel only works with wd0a, and the new kernel doesn't work
> with either fstab entry.

You should receive a "changing root device to ..." message after your 
device probes with the new kernel.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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