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Date:      Sat, 4 Nov 2000 12:51:57 +1300 (NZDT)
From:      Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
To:        Feisal Umar <afu@webcraft99.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Re-Booting new -STABLE Kernel: Failure To Mount Root .. even  GENERIC
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011041250200.5687-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20001104064712.00adf7e8@mail.miway.com>

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Hi Feisal,

Apologies if this is superfluous, but did you do 'make installworld' as
well, plus 'mergemaster' before booting with the new kernel? 

-- 
Regards,


Juha

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On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Feisal Umar wrote:

> Until recently, I have no problems in compiling the kernel and userland 
> tools of my DNS host running predominatly named and sshd (openssh)
> 
> A few days ago, I cvsup'd to the latest source trees and issued the routine 
> make buildworld, make buildkernel KERNEL=<KERNEL> and make installkernel 
> KERNEL=<KERNEL> without encountering any problems. Rebooting to the new 
> kernel, however, resulted in an error Failed To Mount Root: ufs:/dev/ad0s1a 
> (or along that lines). Multiple tries still resulted in the same error.  I 
> had to manually re-boot the host using a previous kernel.
> 
> Building the kernel using GENERIC resulted in the same errors.  And for a 
> couple of days now I have cvsup'd the latest sources again, even to the 
> point removing /usr/src/* and /usr/obj/* and at each try, the new kernel 
> fails to reboot with the same failure.
> 
> For one, this is an isolated case, 'coz another host I maintain have no 
> such problem compiling STABLE-4.2-BETA for days now (as a baseline for my 
> production machines).
> 
> I am at lost here. Appreciate any advices or thoughts on how to resolve the 
> matter.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> PS: The host was originally a STABLE-3.5, upgraded to STABLE-4.0, and 
> undergone multiple kernel builds before.  Last successful kernel build is 
> STABLE-4.1.1 Friday Oct 20.
> 
> --
> 
> Feisal Umar
> Webcraft Sdn Bhd - http://www.webcraft99.com
> 
> 
> 
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