Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:20:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any recent changes related to MD_ROOT ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210181019070.46291-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20021017183802.A74694@carp.icir.org>
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On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Hi, > > on a freshly cvsupped source tree, i notice that picobsd images > with a preloaded MD_ROOT cannot boot anymore: the kernel goes up > to this stage: > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c > 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:da0s1a > ? List valid disk boot devices > <empty line> Abort manual input > > mountroot> > > at which point you can proceed by specifying "ufs:md0" as the root > path, and everything works fine. > It certainly used to work (though i do not remember if the root path > came out as md0c or just md0) up to a couple of months ago, roughly. > > Does this ring any bell on what might have changed more or less recently > that affects this ? Who builds up the '/dev/md0c' name for the root > filesystem ? phk@ removed old BSD partition compatibility (md0a,b,c) a while back and then added it in for the devfs case. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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