Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:03:49 -0500 From: "Steve Sims" <SimsS@IBM.Net> To: <questions@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Problem "switching to sd0" Message-ID: <199611251904.TAA84951@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net>
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Uh oh.... Not being content to leave well enough alone, I decided to cvsup -STABLE onto a 2.1.0-RELEASE box. The system is, basically, a P5/120 with a PCI Adaptec 2940 driving a couple of Seagate 12550N's. No IDE, but it dual-boots into Win'95 or FreeBSD. The system was performing flawlessly under 2.1.0-RELEASE, so I don't know what I was thinking by trying to perform an upgrade %-) Anyway, cvsup ran for a while and completed successfully. A quick 'make world' and I should have been "upgraded". No dice. 'make world' barfed on an error of some flavor or another and I decided I'd just come back to it later; I rebooted the box into Win'95 for a quick game of "Monster Truck Madness" (to which I confess an addiction). After a while I was sufficiently rejuvenated to delve into the `make` failure so I booted (or, rather, tried to boot) into FreeBSD. The kernel spits out its many probes and gets to "switching root device to sd0" (or some such) and hangs. Dead. Frozen. Sucking on the big banana. I tried booting with '-cv', checked the configuration. It looks OK. A lot more probe messages, but everything *looks* OK. Still hangs "switching to sd0". Finally, I booted up with '-s' to go single user. That works. Question is: Whazzup with that? Once I've gone single user, I can mount the /usr partition and I can un-read-only the root partition, but the box won't come up cleanly in multi-user. H E L P! Any ideas? ...sjs...
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