From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 13 07:54:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA12490 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 07:54:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from enigami.com (enigami.com [208.140.182.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA12160 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 07:53:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ckempf@enigami.com) Received: from [208.140.182.45] (symphony.enigami.com [208.140.182.45]) by enigami.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA21394; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 10:51:46 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: ckempfm@enigami.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19980313133514.09198@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199803130024.SAA11363@toybox.cc.iastate.edu>; from Kent Vander Velden on Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 06:24:28PM -0600 <199803130024.SAA11363@toybox.cc.iastate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 10:50:10 -0500 To: Greg Lehey , Kent Vander Velden , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Cory Kempf Subject: Re: root filesystem and -current Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 22:05 -0500 98.03.12, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Thu, 12 March 1998 at 18:24:28 -0600, Kent Vander Velden wrote: >The big one: IF YOU ARE RUNNING -CURRENT, SUBSCRIBE TO THE >FREEBSD-CURRENT MAILING LIST! Tried that. Signal was rather low, noise was way too high. >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. Tried that. Still Panics on boot. Putting it back via a fixit floppy after root refused to mount because it had the wrong device in /etc/fstab was real fun. So, in case anyone else is tempted, my experience was less than good. YMMV. +C -- Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? Please read this first: Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message