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Date:      Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:01:40 +0000
From:      Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Booting -current with new loader
Message-ID:  <19990124170140.A688@titus.stade.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199901210700.XAA06653@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:00:27PM -0800
References:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.990121114034.29987E-100000@nhj.nlc.net.au> <199901210700.XAA06653@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:00:27PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> Right now I'm looking at stamping the disklabel which contains the 
> designated root filesystem and passing the stamp into the kernel, which 
> will then go look for it.  There are still gremlins with this approach, 
> but I can't think of anything better. 8(

Well, it would probably help avoid the confusion and terror I went
through today (8-)

I updated my boot blocks (last done a month ago) and the machine refused
to mount my root filesystem (on /dev/da0s2a) with "specified device does
not match mounted device".

The machine would load OK with /kernel at the boot prompt. After fiddling with
num_ide_disks and some RTSLing, I discovered root_disc_unit (8-) 

	set num_ide_disks=-1
	set root_disk_unit=0	<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
	load /kernel
	load -t userconfig_script /kernel.config
	autoboot

Bliss!
-- 
Adrian Wontroba

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