From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 29 21:04:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA24649 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 21:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from outreach.wolfnet.org (root@outreach.wolfnet.org [207.173.133.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA24643 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 21:04:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkf@wolfnet.org) Received: from outreach.wolfnet.org (jkf@outreach.wolfnet.org [207.173.133.202]) by outreach.wolfnet.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA00379; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 21:08:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkf@wolfnet.org) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 21:08:02 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason K. Fritcher" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mounting an mfs_root partition Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to mount the mfs root partition that is in the kernel in the PicoBSD package. I have mfs compiled into my kernel, and have mounted the kernel on /dev/vn0 with vnconfig, and when I attempt to mount /dev/vn0s1 into the file system, I keep getting an error message from mfs saying it can't find a disklabel. I've tried to access the mfs partition through /dev/vn0, and /dev/vn0a, and both ways I keep getting the same error message. Below is the actual output from the commands I'm trying. [root@outreach:/]# vnconfig -cv /dev/vn0 /kernel.picobsd /dev/vn0: 1274880 bytes on /kernel.picobsd [root@outreach:/]# mount -t mfs /dev/vn0a /mnt mfs: ioctl (GDINFO): Inappropriate ioctl for device mfs: /dev/vn0a: can't read disk label; disk type must be specified [root@outreach:/]# mount -t mfs /dev/vn0 /mnt mfs: ioctl (GDINFO): Inappropriate ioctl for device mfs: /dev/vn0: can't read disk label; disk type must be specified [root@outreach:/]# mount -t mfs /dev/vn0s1 /mnt mfs: ioctl (GDINFO): Inappropriate ioctl for device mfs: /dev/vn0s1: can't read disk label; disk type must be specified This is under 2.2.6-stable from about two weeks ago. Any help is appriciated. Please email any responses to me, as I'm not subscribed to questions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message