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Date:      Mon, 9 Mar 1998 16:39:16 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Latest -current kernel panics on boot
Message-ID:  <19980309163916.42581@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199803090541.VAA13322@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 09:41:57PM -0800
References:  <19980309160316.00609@freebie.lemis.com> <199803090541.VAA13322@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Sun,  8 March 1998 at 21:41:57 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
>> 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.

Yes, I thought of that too.  Nothing spectacular:

config		kernel	root on wd0 

>> 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?

Yup.  Complete make world cvsupped this morning (Monday).

>> 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.

That's where it dies.

Greg

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