From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 13 17:42:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA01400 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 17:42:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from top.worldcontrol.com (surf52.cruzers.com [205.215.232.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA01373 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 17:41:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@worldcontrol.com) From: brian@worldcontrol.com Received: (qmail 949 invoked by uid 100); 14 Mar 1998 01:43:07 -0000 Message-ID: <19980313174302.A924@top.worldcontrol.com> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 17:43:02 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root filesystem and -current (a different twist) Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: ; <199803130024.SAA11363@toybox.cc.iastate.edu>; <199803130024.SAA11363@toybox.cc.iastate.edu> <19980313133514.09198@freebie.lemis.com> <19980314101858.58251@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.90.9i In-Reply-To: ; from Cory Kempf on Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 08:03:06PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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. [it didn't work it seems] I ran into a interesting twist with regard to this change. I caught the warning email and had successfully made the changes on most of my machines. I did the same thing on my laptop and rebooted to an unable to mount root message. Funny, I had successfully done the conversion on other machines. My laptop has a wd type controller and did _not_ have a /dev/wd0s2a entry in /dev. A quick ( cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV wd0s2a ) solved the problem. (FreeBSD is on the second slice on my laptop) -- Brian Litzinger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message