Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 00:45:14 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Alexander Langer <alex@cichlids.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ata: Mount root failure: 6 Message-ID: <199912190845.AAA01286@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Dec 1999 21:43:51 MST." <199912190443.VAA00923@harmony.village.org>
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> -------- > Warner Losh writes: > : > : The fstab looks good > : > : : Is the kernel-config ok? > : > : I didn't see anything wrong with it, but maybe soren should take a > : close look. This stuff definitely works for me on my laptop. > > Hate to follow up myself, but what boot blocks are you using? Really > old ones use the disk label to determine what root device to pass to > the kernel, and maybe that's where the problem lies? On any sort of -current system, the loader ignores this and uses the contents of /etc/fstab instead. I still haven't seen the plaintiff actually bother to transcribe the few relevant lines out of his startup log, so I'm not too highly motivated to worry about this in return, however ENXIO definitively means "the device you're trying to mount as root was not probed". Since it works with 'wd', and the 'ad' driver registers a 'wd' device as well, the actual options for dysfunction are pretty small. If and when more information is forthcoming, a diagnosis will be trivial. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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