From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 12 19:06:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03080 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 19:06:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02931 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 19:05:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA01545; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 13:35:14 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id NAA08181; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 13:35:14 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980313133514.09198@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 13:35:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Kent Vander Velden , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root filesystem and -current References: <199803130024.SAA11363@toybox.cc.iastate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199803130024.SAA11363@toybox.cc.iastate.edu>; from Kent Vander Velden on Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 06:24:28PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 March 1998 at 18:24:28 -0600, Kent Vander Velden wrote: > > Hos something changed in -current during the past two weeks that would > affect how the root filesystem is mounted? Yes. > The problem that I am seeing at the moment is with a new -current > kernel, the root file system will fail to mount on boot. Running > mount with no arguments shows that / has the device 'root_device' > mounted on it and not '/dev/sd0a' as I would aspect. When I try to > mount '/dev/sd0a' on / mount gives the error: "Specified device does > not match mounted device.\n". I will try recompiling mount in a > moment. Any other suggestions? The big one: IF YOU ARE RUNNING -CURRENT, SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREEBSD-CURRENT MAILING LIST! This isn't the correct mailing list to discuss -current issues, and if you don't read -current mail, you'll be surprised like this again. I'm copying this to -questions, and not to -current, because there might be more like you out there. What has happened is relatively complicated: they've eliminated the "compatibility slice", so you will no longer be able to mount /dev/sd0a. Use /dev/sd0s1a instead (in /etc/fstab). Don't be put off by the fact that it will then claim to mount /dev/sd0s2a; that's a known bug. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message