Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:39:47 -0400 From: G Norm <gnorm@mac.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mountroot prompt Message-ID: <775F01FF-B054-11D6-A131-003065A51656@mac.com>
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Can someone help me with a problem that I am having after building & installing a custom kernel? I recently cvsup'ed from 4.4 release to 4.6 stable. That process went well. I went on to compile and install a custom kernel and that seem to have gone well also. My problem is, now the computer will not boot normally. The boot process fails with the following message. Mounting root from usf:/dev/ad0s1a no such device 'ad' setrootbyname failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 Manual root filesystem specification: <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype> eg. ufs:/dev/daos1a ? List valid disk boot devices <empty line> Abort manual input mountroot> According to the book that I am reading I should boot into the old kernel by pressing the appropriate F-key to get past the bootloader to try to fix this problem. I have no idea which F-key is the appropriate F-Key so I have not been able to get past the boot loader to try the recommended command, boot /boot/kernel.old. I have not been able to boot into my old kernel. Gregory Norman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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