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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:07:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>
To:        Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: single user mode problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003100903390.1198-100000@mammalia.sea>
In-Reply-To: <20000310.10064900@bartequi.ottodomain.org>

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> 
> > This has been going on for awhile, and I've looked everywhere for a
> > solution.  When I boot single user, the / filesystem gets mounted on
> > wd0s4a even though /dev does not even have such an entry nor does
> > /etc/fstab, since these have all been updated.
> > This is not really such a problem until I try to exit from single user
> > mode.  Then, it tries to remount / on ad0s4a and can't find it.
> 
> 
> Dear Joseph,
> 
> as I have recently written, I met an analogous problem while upgrading
> to CURRENT: the "wdNsMa syndrome" appeared when I rebooted in s.u.m.
> with the shining gleaming roaring freshly-made 4.0-CURRENT kernel in
> order to (somehow) make installworld. Well, I did NOT care about it
> and I went ahead ruthlessly ...
> 
> By the way, I made another kernel at the end of the process ("by the
> book"). I suppose (?) this cleared the problem. In fact, I was able to
> boot with no weird messages: all my filesystems were correctly
> identified as adNsM (e.g. ad1s2a, ad1s2e ...)

Hi Salvo,

I did read your recent post on this.  For me, however, the problem
persists even with a new kernel.  I've looked through all the boot and
init files for some clue as to where it's getting the idea that / is on
wd0s4a but I can't find anything ):-(.



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