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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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