From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 14 08:26:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA26640 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 08:26:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bsampley.vip.best.com (bsampley.vip.best.com [206.184.160.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA26606 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 08:26:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsampley@best.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bsampley.vip.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA00392 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 08:24:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsampley@best.com) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 08:24:12 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley X-Sender: bsampley@bsampley.vip.best.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root filesystem and -current In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To anyone interested, I figured out what the solution was. Apparently sometime ago I ran /dev/MAKEDEV all which seem to remove sM[a-h] from all xdNsM[a-h] (where N is the device number and M is the slice number) entries. Actually it didn't removed them, I just know that after running this script with the 'all' argument, I had to change all entries in my /etc/fstab from /dev/sd0s2a --> /dev/sd0a, etc to be able to boot the next time. When I attempted to use the new 2.2.6-Beta kernel which eliminated the "compatibility slice" the new kernel wouldn't boot. When I tried changing /etc/fstab to mount root on /dev/sd0s2a (because DOS/95 are on sd0s1 for games) it could not because that slice was no longer valid. The solution was remake each individual slice I need using /dev/MAKEDEV and referencing my current /etc/fstab for the correct slices. My system then booted correctly under the new kernel. - --------------- Burton Sampley bsampley@best.com or bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu PGP key available at http://www.best.com/~bsampley/pgp.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNQqvNXt2O8KJtMdBAQHHTAP/QFUxOYXLszQg9929I65AHNfHFDYHDeLd Eca0OLy9jzyW92HPwIBrBKUkooJyhg/A4QEzdAP3N54RL9CQgkdUsHinyA7uEmeb jy9xCsVSU4GM512U60W3Sb9gKbtLdwwuu9NdEhogAGHiU35NkyRbx0x7OQ9++JBx Vayno1crHH0= =RH0q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message